Table 7.

Factor loadings from the Exploratory Factor Analysis of Perceived capability of specific applications of Artificial Intelligence.

	Factor 1	Factor 2	U	IRC	Mean	SD
Providing psychotherapy for patients with phobias	0.81		0.47	0.54	1.79	0.96
Acting as a doctor in a GP practice	0.77		0.52	0.53	1.64	0.94
Selecting staff for employment	0.73		0.53	0.56	2.14	1.02
Performing surgical procedures on patients	0.71		0.52	0.59	2.44	1.21
Being a bank branch employee	0.71		0.55	0.55	2.39	1.13
Driving a car	0.60		0.52	0.65	2.70	1.25
Deciding how to prioritise aid during humanitarian crises	0.58		0.43	0.71	2.63	1.23
Playing a team football match	0.56		0.75	0.37	1.81	1.13
Managing patient needs and movements in a large hospital	0.54		0.46	0.70	2.80	1.31
Identifying depression via social media posts	0.49		0.64	0.57	2.57	1.14
Making arrangements by phone	0.48		0.68	0.53	2.85	1.06
Acting as a call centre worker	0.47		0.70	0.51	2.57	1.17
Painting an artwork that can be sold at auction	0.42		0.82	0.37	2.10	1.03
Helping detect life on other planets		0.93	0.34	0.48	4.54	0.90
Discovering new chemical molecules for pharmaceutical or industrial applications		0.90	0.34	0.54	4.17	1.02
Checking large volumes of documents for relevant legal evidence		0.88	0.33	0.57	4.25	0.97
Reducing fraud related to exams or assessments		0.85	0.30	0.65	3.91	1.08
Reviewing and analysing risks in legal contracts		0.64	0.43	0.67	3.54	1.13
Spotting art forgeries		0.64	0.55	0.56	3.59	1.26
Helping investment bankers make decisions modelling different scenarios		0.57	0.45	0.69	3.59	1.16
Summarising texts to distil the essence of the information		0.47	0.71	0.47	3.58	1.03

Table 7 Note: Factor loadings onto Factor 1 (F1, Perceived capability of AI for tasks involving Human Judgement) and Factor 2 (F2, Perceived capability of AI for tasks involving Big Data), with Uniqueness (U), item-rest correction (IRC), item mean and standard deviation (SD) for the 21 items retained in the Exploratory Factor Analysis of perceived capability ratings.