Most people prefer artificial intelligence (AI) — not humans — to make major decisions around the distribution of financial resources, despite being happier when humans make such decisions.
The majority (64%) of participants in a new study published June 20 in the journal Public Choice favored algorithms over people when it came to deciding how much money they earned for completing a set of specific tasks.
When playing the game, participants were motivated not just by their own interests, the scientists said, but ideals about fairness. They tolerated any deviation between the decision and their own interests when the AI made the decision, so long as one fairness principle was followed — but when the decision didn’t align with common principles of fairness, they reacted very negatively.
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