Batra also says the team stopped the bots because the experiment required the chatbots to speak English, not because there was something nefarious going on. Yet people are still worked up, some even paranoid about AI. In fact, people are more afraid of "computers replacing people in the workforce" and "technology [they] don't understand" than they are about things like ghosts, blood and even their significant others cheating on them, according to the most recent Chapman University Survey of American Fears.