"Across a series of experiments, we found that people treated unfairly by an #AI were less likely to punish human wrongdoers afterwards than participants who had been treated unfairly by a human. They showed a kind of #desensitisation to others’ bad behaviour. We called it AI-induced #indifference, to capture the idea that unfair treatment by AI can weaken people’s sense of accountability to others. This makes them less likely to address injustices in their community."
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Artificial intelligence (AI) makes important decisions that affect our everyday lives. These decisions are implemented by firms and institutions in the name of efficiency. They ...

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> As we browse the news, it's easy to become desensitised to awful events. Amanda Ruggeri explores the psychology, and the steps you can take to avoid it happening.

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"Perhaps the most immediate danger, however, is not a sudden explosion of violence across the region, but the world’s slow normalisation of, and desensitisation to, what should be an unacceptably high level of violence and human misery."

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