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Adopting AI: how familiarity breeds both trust and contempt

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Horowitz, Michael C., Kahn, Lauren, Macdonald, Julia, Schneider, Jacquelyn·2024·AI & SOCIETY

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Despite pronouncements about the inevitable diffusion of artificial intelligence and autonomous technologies, in practice, it is human behavior, not technology in a vacuum, that dictates how technology seeps into-and changes-societies. To better understand how human preferences shape technological adoption and the spread of AI-enabled autonomous technologies, we look at representative adult samples of US public opinion in 2018 and 2020 on the use of four types of autonomous technologies: vehicles, surgery, weapons, and cyber defense. By focusing on these four diverse uses of AI-enabled autonomy that span transportation, medicine, and national security, we exploit the inherent variation between these AI-enabled autonomous use cases. We find that those with familiarity and expertise with AI and similar technologies were more likely to support all of the autonomous applications we tested (except weapons) than those with a limited understanding of the technology. Individuals that had already delegated the act of driving using ride-share apps were also more positive about autonomous vehicles. However, familiarity cut both ways; individuals are also less likely to support AI-enabled technologies when applied directly to their life, especially if technology automates tasks they are already familiar with operating. Finally, we find that familiarity plays little role in support for AI-enabled military applications, for which opposition has slightly increased over time. Supplementary information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00146-023-01666-5.

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Authors
Horowitz, M. C., Kahn, L., Macdonald, J., & Schneider, J.
Affiliations
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • Council on Foreign Relations (US)
  • University of Denver (US)
  • Stanford University (US)
Corresponding author
Horowitz, Michael C.
Venue
AI & SOCIETY
Published
2023-05-12
Volume
39
Issue
4
Pages
1721-1735
ISSN
  • 0951-5666 (ISSN-L)
  • 1435-5655
OpenAlex
W4376255515
Cited by
135
References
55
Citations by year
2026: 51 · 2025: 58 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 2
FWCI
27.64
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • AI & Society (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (cc-by)
Funders
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-18-1-0194)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Social Sciences › Human Factors and Ergonomics › Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
Keywords
artificial intelligence adoption, public opinion, trust in AI, technology familiarity, expertise, autonomous vehicles, autonomous surgery, autonomous weapons, cyber defense, artificial intelligence in warfare, national security, technology acceptance

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