i've not been on linkedin in some years, so as someone unrepresented by this poll i'd go further and say mass adoption of cellphones was also a mistake. it may not be a popular opinion, but it's earnest and it's mine.

The sample here is people who interact with that specific user who posted the poll. The exact same poll would have totally different results depending on the person posting it, with some people who have very pro-AI professional circles getting pro-AI results, and people who have anti-AI professional circles getting anti-AI results.

This is meaningless.

"say they’re excited but concerned"

Excited but concerned about returning to a world without AI or excited but concerned with AI but want AI?

This makes sense. There's the hordes posting nonsense about AI, but that's only one demographic using LinkedIn. Another big group is like you, trying to get a new job after getting laid off. While your feed is almost exclusively the former, the latter may still respond to polls.

We should find a way to trick them into increasing spending before the bubble pops so the inevitable is as painful as possible

Something I find interesting is the ambiguity in this question.

I think you can be pro-AI and also prefer to go back to before AI in a “we should make the best of the opportunities we have now” kind of mindset. A mindset that is also disinclined from opposing the mainstream and scared of being left behind etc.

In other words, the question’s premise is an unrealistic magical solution and doesn’t directly concern practical reality.

Which might be a neat way of cutting through the noise people’s rebellious or conformist or opportunistic mindsets which can cloud the essential question of whether this all feels good or bad to people.