时间：2021年4月30日（周五）上午 10：30-12：00

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主讲人：Adelle Xue Yang, National University of Singapore

题目：AI Aversion: Defending the Human Gaze for the Identifiable Recipient

摘要：

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing human decision-making, yet its adoption has generated numerous debates especially in policy decisions that distribute scarce resources among people. Eight pre-registered experiments (N = 3,138 participants) find that an observer’s AI aversion in these decision systems is intensified when an identifiable decision recipient is spotlighted among many statistical recipients, showcasing a remarkable malleability of this sentiment, both between-subjects and within-subjects. This effect is robust to the valence of observers’ emotions evoked by the recipient (Study 3), variations in the representativeness of the identifiable recipient (Study 4), and participants’ familiarity with the human-versus-AI decision (Study 5); yet critically, it is attenuated when participants imagine themselves as one of the recipients (Study 6). Moreover, the effect is mediated in all studies by the observers’ stronger emotions evoked by the identifiable (vs. statistical) decision recipients, which subsequently heighten their moral intuition against AI—that human recipients ought to receive human attention, instead of being processed like statistics by AI. These experiments also rule out previously identified causes of AI aversion as alternative explanations, and rule out participant inattention or miscomprehension as alternative explanations for the intrapersonal attitudes changes toward AI. In sum, AI aversion in part reflects a moral intuition to defend the “human gaze” when human recipients are assessed in the decision process, and the strength of this moral intuition is contingent on the intensity of situation-dependent emotions.

主讲人简介：

I study consumer behavior and consumer psychology with a focus on consumers’ judgment and decision–making process in a dynamic social context. The current theme of my research is how consumers resolve the tension between self-interest and prosociality in interpersonal decisions such as in gift-giving and charitable giving decisions. My work has been published in leading academic journals including Psychological Science, Journal of Consumer Research, and Journal of Consumer Psychology, and featured in popular media such as The Economist, Washington Post, Psychology Today, and Chanel News Asia. Since I joined the National University of Singapore in 2016, I’ve enjoyed collaborating with local organizations to conduct field experiments and teaching consumer behavior to undergraduate students. One of my field experiments in Singapore increased blood donations using a novel intervention. Besides research, I love a good wine, a bad pun, playing badminton, and learning new languages.