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Sharing responsibility with a machine
Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2019-06
Sprache
English
Author(s)
TORE-URI
Volume
80
Start Page
25
End Page
33
Citation
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 80: 25-33 (2019-06)
Publisher DOI
Scopus ID
Humans make decisions jointly with others. They share responsibility for the outcome with their interaction partners. Today, more and more often the partner in a decision is not another human but, instead, a machine. Here we ask whether the type of the partner, machine or human, affects our responsibility, our perception of the choice and the choice itself. As a workhorse we use a modified dictator game with two joint decision makers: either two humans or one human and one machine. We find no treatment effect on perceived responsibility or guilt. We also find only a small and insignificant effect on actual choices.
Subjects
Experiment
Human-computer interaction
Moral wiggle room
Shared responsibility
DDC Class
000: Allgemeines, Wissenschaft