Exploring How Users Attribute Responsibilities Across Different Stakeholders in Human-AI Interaction

  • Yu Ting Chen
  • , Hsin Yi Sandy Tsai
  • , Chien Wen (Tina) Yuan

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Abstract

With the increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in various systems and applications, understanding how individuals perceive and assign responsibility in both successful and failed AI interactions is crucial. This study examines the attribution of responsibility among relevant stakeholders - companies, developers, and AI - drawing on the attribution theory. Through an online survey (n = 1,173), we investigated user perceptions of normal and abnormal recommendations on YouTube Kids and their attributions across these stakeholders. Our findings reveal significant differences in perceived ethical responsibility among these stakeholders, with AI consistently bearing higher accountability in both scenarios. This underscores the presence of a complex attribution mechanism in human-AI interactions, calling for a refinement of existing attribution theories to better capture the nuanced dynamics of ethical responsibility in this context.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCSCW Companion 2024 - Companion of the 2024 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
EditorsMichael Bernstein, Amy Bruckman, Ujwal Gadiraju, Aaron Halfaker, Xiaojuan Ma, Fabiano Pinatti, Miriam Redi, David Ribes, Saiph Savage, Amy Zhang
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages202-208
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9798400711145
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024 Nov 13
Externally publishedYes
Event27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW Companion 2024 - Hybrid, San Jose, Costa Rica
Duration: 2024 Nov 92024 Nov 13

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Conference

Conference27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW Companion 2024
Country/TerritoryCosta Rica
CityHybrid, San Jose
Period2024/11/092024/11/13

Keywords

  • artificial intelligence (ai)
  • attribution
  • ethical responsibility
  • human-ai interaction
  • recommendation systems
  • stakeholders

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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