A bonus task boosts people's willingness to offload cognition to an algorithm.

ABSTRACT: With the increased sophistication of technology, humans have the possibility to offload a variety of tasks to algorithms. Here, we investigated whether the extent to which people are willing to offload an attentionally demanding task to an algorithm is modulated by the availability of a bonus task and by the knowledge about the algorithm's capacity. Participants performed a multiple object tracking (MOT) task which required them to visually track targets on a screen. Participants could offload an unlimited number of targets to a "computer partner". If participants decided to offload the entire task to the computer, they could instead perform a bonus task which resulted in additional financial gain-however, this gain was conditional on a high performance accuracy in the MOT task. Thus, part

SUBMITTER: Wahn B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11039595 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature