Men claim to know fictional AI leaders, study finds

a harvard study of over 5,400 americans found that 73% of male respondents claimed to know openai ceo sam altman, while 53% claimed to know fictional ai executives susan milner and craig dalton. men are more overconfident in ai knowledge, using it more frequently and answering factual questions correctly, but also answering incorrectly at a similar rate to women. the study suggests this overconfidence affects ai discourse, with men named in ai headlines 14 times more often than women, and 3/4 of quoted experts being men. this impacts media coverage and the broader conversation around ai.