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A new study published by researchers at the University of Amsterdam, Max Planck Institute, Otto Beisheim School of Management, and the University of Cologne revealed that AI-generated advice could corrupt people’s morals, even when they knew the advice is coming from a machine.
The experiment was intended to see if AI could successfully spread misinformation and disinformation in a way that would affect a person’s actions. Researchers recruited more than 1,500 volunteers for the study. The volunteers were given either “honesty-promoting” advice or “dishonesty-promoting” advice, some written by humans and some written by AI, and then tasked with an activity that allowed room for lying. The statistical result was that the AI-generated advice was indistinguishable from the human-written advice, and the volunteers generally chose the dishonest path. This led the researchers to conclude that bad actors could use AI as a force to corrupt a victim’s morals.
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