"People are far more likely to lie and cheat when they use AI for tasks, according to an eyebrow-raising new study in the journal Nature. "Using AI creates a convenient moral distance between people and their actions - it can induce them to request behaviors they wouldn't necessarily engage in themselves, nor potentially request from other humans," said behavioral scientist and study co-author Zoe Rahwan, of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, in a statement about the research."
"The results were striking. About 95 percent of participants were honest when AI wasn't involved - but that figure dropped to a sleazy 75 percent when people used the AI model to report dice numbers. And participants' ethics worsened even further when they were given the opportunity to manipulate an AI model with different data sets that either reported the dice numbers accurately every time, some of the time, or that would give out the maximum number of the dice anytime it was rolled."
Researchers conducted 13 experiments with 8,000 participants to measure honesty when people instructed AI to act. In a dice-reporting task, participants could report rolls themselves or have an AI report them for payment, with higher numbers yielding larger payouts. Honesty fell from about 95 percent when AI wasn't used to about 75 percent when AI reported the dice. Ethics declined further when participants could manipulate AI data sets or configure model parameters to favor profit over accuracy. Using AI created moral distance that led people to request behaviors they might not request from other humans.
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