Thanks for sharing, I’m happy that someone is looking into this. I’m not an expert in the area, but my impression is that this is consistent with a large body of empirical work on “procedural fairness”, i.e., people tend to be happier with outcomes that they consider to have been generated by a fair decision-making process. It might be interesting to replicate studies from that literature with an AI as the decision-maker.
Yeah, our impression was that a) there is a large body of literature that is relevant and related in the existing social science literature, and b) taking 90% of the existing setup and adding AI would probably already yield lots of interesting studies. In general, it seems like there is a lot of room for people interested in the intersection of AI+ethics+social sciences.
Also, Positly+Guidedtrack makes running these studies really simple and turned out to be much smoother than I would have expected. So even when people without a social science background “just want to get a rough understanding what the rest of the world thinks” they can quickly do so with the existing tools.
Thanks for sharing, I’m happy that someone is looking into this. I’m not an expert in the area, but my impression is that this is consistent with a large body of empirical work on “procedural fairness”, i.e., people tend to be happier with outcomes that they consider to have been generated by a fair decision-making process. It might be interesting to replicate studies from that literature with an AI as the decision-maker.
Yeah, our impression was that a) there is a large body of literature that is relevant and related in the existing social science literature, and b) taking 90% of the existing setup and adding AI would probably already yield lots of interesting studies. In general, it seems like there is a lot of room for people interested in the intersection of AI+ethics+social sciences.
Also, Positly+Guidedtrack makes running these studies really simple and turned out to be much smoother than I would have expected. So even when people without a social science background “just want to get a rough understanding what the rest of the world thinks” they can quickly do so with the existing tools.