Writing with AI boosts trust-building efficiency.

ABSTRACT: AI-mediated communication promises efficiency but raises concerns about diminished authenticity and interpersonal trust. We examined this potential trade-off across two preregistered online experiments (N = 1,637) in which participants engaged in incentivized two-player trust games with communication. Half of the participants could use state-of-the-art predictive text assistance when composing a message to encourage trust; the others wrote unaided. We measured both objective (behavioral) and subjective (stated) trust. Frequentist and Bayesian analyses showed that AI assistance had minimal impact on trust, regardless of disclosure. AI-assisted participants wrote more efficiently, producing equally trust-inducing messages but in less time. This advantage persisted even when AI use was

SUBMITTER: Purcell ZA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12765382 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature