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Sharing Responsibility with a Machine
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 12. September 2018
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2018-014
- Schlagwort(e)
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Experiment
Human-computer interaction
Moral wiggle room
Shared responsibility
- Zusammenfsg.
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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.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; D80 - General
- URN
- urn:nbn:de:urmel-21be43f1-74ed-4cbf-be64-44939f1c1cbf4-00265352-14