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Few Americans Think AI Will Do More Good Than Harm

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How Many Scientists Are Religious?

The question is, how many scientists are religious? Is there any kind of majority or plurality showing religiousness or none? If they are religious, what belief system do they tend to hold, if any? So I'm going to let you weigh in on this, but first I'll add some data here because I did try to look this up for the listener. The only data I could find was very old. This is a Pew survey from 2009. It shows that scientists are roughly half as likely as the general public to believe in God or a higher power. According to the poll, just over half of scientists, 51%, believe in some form of deity or ahigher power.

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