Great topic! AI is such a broad and evolving area, so let me help you narrow down what you're really trying to learn. Here are some key dimensions to consider:

What aspect of AI are you most interested in exploring?

1. General sentiment — Do people feel excited, worried, neutral, or conflicted about AI?
2. Personal impact — How do people think AI will affect their jobs, daily life, or relationships?
3. Trust & reliability — Do people trust AI to make decisions? In what contexts?
4. Adoption & usage — Are people using AI tools? What barriers or motivations exist?
5. Ethics & society — What concerns do people have about AI's broader impact (privacy, bias, control)?
6. Specific AI types — Generative AI (ChatGPT, image generators), autonomous vehicles, AI in healthcare, etc.

Who are you trying to understand?

• A) General public / consumers
• B) Employees in a specific industry
• C) Tech professionals / developers
• D) Business decision-makers
• E) A specific demographic (age group, region, etc.)

What's the purpose of this research?

• A) Academic / curiosity
• B) Product development
• C) Content / messaging strategy
• D) Policy or advocacy
• E) Something else

Let me know which options resonate (or share your own take), and I'll help design a creative exercise to capture meaningful insights!

Got it — you want to understand employees in a specific industry and their thoughts on AI.

A few more questions to nail this down:

Which industry are we focusing on?

1. Healthcare — doctors, nurses, administrators
2. Finance / Banking — analysts, advisors, accountants
3. Education — teachers, professors, administrators
4. Legal — lawyers, paralegals, compliance
5. Creative / Marketing — designers, writers, marketers
6. Retail / Hospitality — store staff, managers, customer service
7. Manufacturing / Logistics — factory workers, supply chain
8. Other — tell me which!

What's your core question about these employees?

• A) Job security fears — Are they worried AI will replace them?
• B) Workflow integration — How open are they to using AI tools in their daily work?
• C) Skills & training — Do they feel prepared to work alongside AI?
• D) Quality & trust — Do they trust AI to do parts of their job well?
• E) Decision-making — Where should AI assist vs. where should humans stay in control?
• F) Mix of the above — want to capture overall sentiment across multiple dimensions?

Pick one from each (or share your own), and we'll get more specific!

No problem! Let's start fresh.

What do you want to know about what people think of AI?

Help me understand a bit more:

1. What's prompting this research? Is there a decision you're trying to make, a hypothesis to test, or just curiosity?

2. Is there a particular angle you're drawn to — like fears, excitement, how people are using it, trust, etc.?

3. Who are the "people" you want to hear from — general public, a specific group, your customers, etc.?

Share as much or as little as you'd like, and I'll help shape it from there!

Alright, fresh start!

You want to know what people think of AI.

That's a great starting point. What's the main reason you're exploring this?

1. Curiosity — Just want to understand general attitudes and feelings
2. Building something — Designing a product/feature and need to understand perceptions
3. Communication — Crafting messaging or content about AI
4. Workplace — Understanding how a team or organization feels about AI adoption
5. Something else — Tell me more!

Nice — pure curiosity about how people feel about AI. I like it!

What's most interesting to you?

1. The emotional side — Are people excited, scared, hopeful, skeptical, conflicted?
2. The practical side — Are people actually using AI? What for? What's holding them back?
3. The big picture — How do people think AI will shape the future (jobs, society, humanity)?
4. All of it — You want a broad pulse check across multiple dimensions

Which pulls you in?

Great choice — how people think AI will shape the future is rich territory.

Let me check what creative tools I have available to design something engaging for this:

Now I have a good sense of what I can build. Let me propose some creative exercise ideas for capturing how people think AI will shape the future.

Here are 3 exercise ideas — pick one!

1. 🌍 Future Timeline

A visual timeline where users drag and drop different AI impacts (job changes, societal shifts, breakthroughs) onto a timeline from "Soon" to "Far Future" to "Never." Captures both what they think will happen and when.

2. ⚖️ AI Futures Scale

A 2D canvas where users place different life domains (work, relationships, creativity, health, etc.) on two axes: How much will AI change this? (low → high) and Will that change be good or bad? (negative → positive). Creates a map of their worldview.

3. 🎯 Hope vs. Fear Sorting

Users see a set of AI future scenarios (e.g., "AI writes most content," "AI diagnoses diseases better than doctors," "AI makes most hiring decisions") and drag each into a bucket: Hopeful, Worried, or Conflicted. Quick and intuitive.

Which one sounds most interesting to you? (Or I can mix elements if you like pieces of multiple!)

Great pick! Future Timeline it is.

Let me build an interactive exercise where users drag AI impact predictions onto a timeline. They'll see cards like "AI replaces most customer service jobs," "AI creates art indistinguishable from humans," "AI makes major scientific breakthroughs," etc. — and place them where they think they'll happen: Soon, 5-10 years, 10-25 years, Far future, or Never.

Let me build this for you:

Here it is! 🎉

AI Future Timeline Exercise

What you've got:

• 6 AI predictions to place on a timeline — covering jobs, art, science, relationships, governance, and AGI
• 5 time horizons — from "Now - 2 years" all the way to "Never"
• Drag and drop interaction with satisfying animations
• Click to remove — users can reconsider and move predictions back
• Completion feedback when all cards are placed

What this captures:

• Which AI futures people believe in vs. think will never happen
• Their sense of timing/urgency for different types of AI impact
• Implicit optimism/pessimism based on where they place emotionally-charged scenarios (like "AI companions replace human relationships")

Give it a try! Let me know if you'd like to:

• Add/remove/change any predictions
• Adjust the time horizons
• Tweak the design or colors
• Add any other features

Good call — let me update it so you can drag predictions between buckets (not just click to remove). You'll be able to grab a placed prediction and move it directly to a different time zone.

Done! Try it here

What's changed:

• Drag between zones — grab any placed prediction and move it directly to a different time bucket
• Drag back to source — you can also drag a prediction back up to the top area to "unplace" it
• Visual feedback — zones highlight when you're dragging over them (won't highlight if you're hovering over the zone it's already in)
• Updated messaging — completion message now says "Drag predictions between zones to adjust"

Give it a spin and let me know if you'd like any other tweaks!

You're right — the native HTML drag and drop can feel clunky with that click-to-initiate behavior and the layout jumps. Let me rebuild this using a proper drag library approach with pointer events for smoother, immediate dragging.

Updated! Try it now

What's fixed:

• Instant drag — uses Motion's drag prop with pointer events, so cards move immediately when you grab them (no click delay)
• No layout jumps — disabled layout animation while dragging, so other cards stay put
• Smooth snap-back — if you drop outside a valid zone, the card animates back to its original spot
• Touch-friendly — added touch-none for proper mobile drag handling

The cards should feel much more responsive now. Let me know if anything else feels off!