When people are defeated by artificial intelligence in a competition task requiring logical thinking, how do they make causal attribution?

ABSTRACT: Given that artificial intelligence (AI) has been predicted to eventually take on human tasks demanding logical thinking, it makes sense that we should examine psychological responses of humans when their performance is inferior to AI. Research has demonstrated that after people fail a task, whether they reorient their behavior towards success depends on what they attribute the failure to. This study investigated the causal attributions people made in a competition task requiring such thinking. We also recorded whether they wanted to re-challenge the games after they were defeated by AI. Experiments 1 (N = 74) and 2 (N = 788) recruited Japanese participants, while Experiment 3 (N = 500) comprised American participants. There were two conditions: in the first, participan

SUBMITTER: Yokoi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8758208 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature