Sharing responsibility with a machine

Oliver Kirchkamp and Christina Strobel

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2019, vol. 80, issue C, 25-33

Abstract: Humans make decisions jointly with others. They share responsibility for the outcome with their interaction partners. Today, more and more often the partner in a decision is not another human but, instead, a machine. Here we ask whether the type of the partner, machine or human, affects our responsibility, our perception of the choice and the choice itself. As a workhorse we use a modified dictator game with two joint decision makers: either two humans or one human and one machine. We find no treatment effect on perceived responsibility or guilt. We also find only a small and insignificant effect on actual choices.

Keywords: Human-computer interaction; Experiment; Shared responsibility; Moral wiggle room (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D63 D80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2019.02.010

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