This study also found that participants with greater risk perception of AI (i.e., those who knew about AI severe cases and those who knew about AI outbreaks in Kaohsiung) were more likely to practice the recommended AI preventive behavior. The greater adoption of precautionary measures among these participants with higher risk perception in the current study could be explained by their possibly elevated anxiety levels as posited in an earlier study [28] . These findings further underscore the importance of transparency in dealing with epidemic information, specifically, AI severe cases and local outbreaks, if any, as in this study. Accordingly, future public service announcements or pandemic control initiatives should consider disseminating the aforementioned specific information to the public in the face of an AI epidemic.