People Facing Life-or-Death Choice Trust AI Too Much, Simulation Shows

Source: Science Daily - Top SocietyIn simulated life-or-death decisions, about two-thirds of people in a study published in Scientific Reports allowed a robot to change their minds when it disagreed with them—an alarming display of trust in artificial intelligence, researchers said. Human subjects allowed robots to sway their judgment despite being told the AI machines had limited capabilities and were giving advice that could be wrong. In reality, the advice was random.