Feedback Wanted: Upcoming OCaml Users Survey 2026 Questions

There are at least two kinds of ethical reasons for opposition to using AI: 1) using AI is inherently bad (e.g., because it takes away jobs); 2) AI companies engage in unethical practices that I don’t want to support.

Reason-category 2 could be remedied in the future, for example, by having new companies enter, having old companies reform, or using local models.

If I encountered the answer choice “I don’t use AI and have no plans to because I am morally opposed to AI,” I would hesitate to select that choice because my reason would be in category 2, and the wording makes it seem (to me) as though it applies only to reasons in category 1. “Morally opposed” might also not be about ethics but rather such reasons as it offends one’s sensibility or standards relating to how software engineering ought best to be accomplished or is uncreative or similar.

Also, note this relevant post in another topic: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/in-2026-is-the-average-ocaml-hacker-ai-augmented/17917/4?u=waleedmebane

E.g., I’m X, only hack OCaml for hobby projects, and would never use AI. But if I were still a pro (and had the enormous fortune of being hired to hack OCaml?) I’m sure I’d feel constrained to use AI, yeah.