主题：Endogenous AI-Tocracy
主讲人：薛莲 武汉大学
主持人：康明石 暨南大学
时间：2024年3月30日（周六）上午9:30-11:00
地点：暨南大学石牌校区经济学院大楼（中惠楼）102室
摘要
“AI-tocracy” describes a potential governance form shaped by current societal trends and AI advancements (Beraja et al., 2023). We conducted a series of controlled laboratory experiments to examine what AI-tocracy represents, how decision-makers perceive and respond to it, and why might resistance arise. We find four main results: (i) AI-generated social scores (AI-score) bundled with punitive measures significantly boost group cooperation, driving a 58% increase in contributions to group projects compared to when such a system is absent. (ii) Adoption is polarized. While 50% embrace AI, resulting in heightened cooperation, the remaining half resist, leading to subdued cooperative outcomes. (iii) Predominantly, individuals employ AI-scores to empower their judgments rather than allowing AI full decision-making autonomy, with a 1.3:1 ratio favoring empowerment over replacement. (iv) As decision-makers accrue experience, the chasm between AI predictions and the final human judgments narrows and eventually becomes indistinguishable. We conclude by forecasting AI-tocracy’s potential trajectory in the forthcoming era.
主讲人简介
薛莲，武汉大学经济与管理学院助理教授，研究方向为行为/实验经济学、公共选择、数字经济等。文章发表于知名的国际期刊，包括Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization; Journal of Public Economic Theory等。主持国家自然科学基金青年项目，并参与ESPRC (英国工程于自然科学研究理事会) funded project EMPHASIS (EconoMical, PsyHologicAl and Societal Impact of RanSomware)项目。
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校对|康明石
责编|彭毅
初审|李仲达
终审发布|何凌云
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