People will actually change their moral compass to match whatever an AI says, even if they swear they don’t trust its advice.
This reveals a strange 'hidden' influence of technology on our conscience. Even though we are culturally and personally skeptical of 'robot ethics,' we are still subconsciously nudged to change our minds to match a machine's recommendation.
Trust in artificial moral advisors across cultures
PsyArXiv · sfe9u_v1
Developers of artificial intelligence are already building prototypes for artificial moral advisors: autonomous systems designed to provide humans with recommendations on ethical issues. Yet it remains unclear whether people will trust and adopt these technologies. In a large-scale cross-cultural experiment (12 countries; N = 6,896), we investigate perceptions of human and artificial moral advisors who give advice in moral dilemmas based on competing ethical principles. We show that people trust