How Humans Judge Machines

Hidalgo, Cesar A.,Orghian, Diana,Canals, Jordi Albo,De Almeida, Filipa,Martin, Natalia

ISBN 10: 0262045524 / ISBN 13: 9780262045520

Published by The MIT Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How Humans Judge Machines
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262045524
• ISBN 13: 9780262045520
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

A detailed examination of people's reactions to machine actions as compared to human actions. Through dozens of experiments, this book explores when and why people judge humans and machines differently. 

How would you feel about losing your job to a machine? How about a tsunami alert system that fails? Would you react differently to acts of discrimination depending on whether they were carried out by a machine or by a human? What about public surveillance?

How Humans Judge Machines compares people's reactions to actions performed by humans and machines. Using data collected in dozens of experiments, this book reveals the biases that permeate human-machine interactions.

Are there conditions in which we judge machines unfairly? Is our judgment of machines affected by the moral dimensions of a scenario? Is our judgment of machine correlated with demographic factors such as education or gender?

César Hidalgo and colleagues use hard science to take on these pressing technological questions. Using randomized experiments, they create revealing counterfactuals and build statistical models to explain how people judge artificial intelligence and whether they do it fairly. Through original research, How Humans Judge Machines bring us one step closer tounderstanding the ethical consequences of AI.

About the Author

Written by César A. Hidalgo, Director of the Center for Collective Learning at the University of Toulouse, the author of Why Information Grows, and coauthor of The Atlas of Economic Complexity (MIT Press), together with a team of social psychologists (Diana Orghian and Filipa de Almeida) and roboticists (Jordi Albo-Canals), How Humans Judge Machines presents a unique perspective on the nexus between AI and society. Anyone interested in the future of AI ethics should explore the experiments and theories in How Humans Judge Machines.