"The second is that there needs to be a political or a regulatory response. We need to have a national and an international conversation about redistribution, about safety nets, about measuring this technology and correctly anticipating its arrival. People are aware of this."

With similar motivations, we did some work measuring public perception of AI (to appear in AAAI 2017). Recently, there's been a clear increase in concern about AI displacing human jobs (Figure 3F): https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.04904.pdf