The participants were told that they were interacting with either another human or an AI agent.
The researchers then compared what the participants chose to do when interacting with AIoranonymous humans.
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However, they did not return their benevolence as much and exploited the AI more than humans.
Social dilemmas
One of the experiments they used wasthe prisoners dilemma.
However, they did trust their algorithmic partners to be as cooperative as humans.
People even do not report much guilt when they do.
The findings suggest that the benefits of smart machines could be restricted by human exploitation.
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He leads our coverage of European tech and oversees our talented team of writers.
Away from work, he enjoys playing chess (badly) and the guitar (even worse).
