{"id":146744,"date":"2022-09-21T03:03:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T08:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/people-who-distrust-fellow-humans-show-greater-trust-in-artificial-intelligence"},"modified":"2022-09-21T03:03:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T08:03:10","slug":"people-who-distrust-fellow-humans-show-greater-trust-in-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/people-who-distrust-fellow-humans-show-greater-trust-in-artificial-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"People who distrust fellow humans show greater trust in artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/people-who-distrust-fellow-humans-show-greater-trust-in-artificial-intelligence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.\u2014 A person\u2019s distrust in humans predicts they will have more trust in artificial intelligence\u2019s ability to moderate content online, according to a recently published study. The findings, the researchers say, have practical implications for both designers and users of AI tools in social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found a systematic pattern of individuals who have less trust in other humans showing greater trust in AI\u2019s classification,\u201d said S. Shyam Sundar, the James P. Jimirro Professor of Media Effects at Penn State. \u201cBased on our analysis, this seems to be due to the users invoking the idea that machines are accurate, objective and free from ideological bias.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/14614448221103534\">study<\/a>, published in the journal of New Media &amp; Society also found that \u201cpower users\u201d who are experienced users of information technology, had the opposite tendency. They trusted the AI moderators less because they believe that machines lack the ability to detect nuances of human language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.\u2014 A person\u2019s distrust in humans predicts they will have more trust in artificial intelligence\u2019s ability to moderate content online, according to a recently published study. The findings, the researchers say, have practical implications for both designers and users of AI tools in social media. \u201cWe found a systematic pattern of individuals who [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}