--- title: Brits fear AI will strip humanity from public services description: A UK Ipsos poll of 5,847 adults found that more Britons see AI as a risk to public services than an opportunity (37% vs 23%). Top concerns include reduced... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/brits-fear-ai-will-strip-humanity-from-public-services-w3hkxe6vl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Brits fear AI will strip humanity from public services | daily.dev og:description: A UK Ipsos poll of 5,847 adults found that more Britons see AI as a risk to public services than an opportunity (37% vs 23%). Top concerns include reduced... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/brits-fear-ai-will-strip-humanity-from-public-services-w3hkxe6vl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/W3HkXe6vl.png og:image:alt: Brits fear AI will strip humanity from public services og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Brits fear AI will strip humanity from public services **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 3 min read · 4 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary A UK Ipsos poll of 5,847 adults found that more Britons see AI as a risk to public services than an opportunity (37% vs 23%). Top concerns include reduced human contact (51%), job losses (50%), over-reliance on technology (47%), and privacy issues (46%). Only a third saw potential benefits like freeing up staff time. The survey also revealed widespread pessimism about the NHS and digitization's mixed impact on public services. Public sector leaders interviewed for the State of the State 2026 report were more enthusiastic about AI pilots, though a senior civil servant warned of 'naive techno-utopianism in Whitehall,' noting that AI case studies rarely live up to their press releases. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@bigmoses** · 0 upvotes > Any public service has already lost whatever humanity remained. **@eduar963** · 0 upvotes > I thought it was an article from The Onion ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [MPs hear doubts over UK government's AI savings mission](https://daily.dev/posts/mps-hear-doubts-over-uk-government-s-ai-savings-mission-awfw0t3v7) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [TU Darmstadt found the people who know AI best fear it most](https://daily.dev/posts/tu-darmstadt-found-the-people-who-know-ai-best-fear-it-most-wye68nirx) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#automation](https://daily.dev/tags/automation), [#chatgpt](https://daily.dev/tags/chatgpt) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/brits-fear-ai-will-strip-humanity-from-public-services-w3hkxe6vl) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Brits fear AI will strip humanity from public services","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/brits-fear-ai-will-strip-humanity-from-public-services-w3hkxe6vl","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/brits-fear-ai-will-strip-humanity-from-public-services-w3hkxe6vl"},"datePublished":"2026-03-07T11:07:16.823Z","dateModified":"2026-03-07T11:07:35.945Z","description":"A UK Ipsos poll of 5,847 adults found that more Britons see AI as a risk to public services than an opportunity (37% vs 23%). 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