How adolescents view artificial general intelligence (AGI): Gender, autism spectrum risk, and personality as predictors of latent profiles of beliefs about AGI

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Na: Sztuczna inteligencja i nowoczesne technologie w badaniach społecznych

Data: 21-22 listopada 2024

Wygłosił: Oliwia Kosecka

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Streszczenie:

This study examined how adolescents view artificial general intelligence (AGI) and its development. Previous research has shown that people have mixed feelings about AI and hold diverse beliefs regarding the potential nature of AGI. As AI becomes increasingly central to technological progress and a more prominent part of everyday life, understanding attitudes toward it and their predictors is crucial. A total of 659 high school students participated in the study. A latent profile analysis was conducted based on two variables: the belief that AI will achieve a level of human thinking and the belief that emotions will guide it. The results identified four profiles: (i) “AGI Scientists,” who believe that AI will reach human-level thinking and be guided by emotions, suggesting it could have subjective experiences akin to human consciousness, potentially leading to emotional responses (16.3%); (ii) “AGI Skeptics,” who expect that AI will neither achieve this level of thinking nor be guided by emotions (20.2%); (iii) “AGI Realists,” who are more balanced and uncertain on both counts (49.1%); and (iv) “AGI Functionalists,” who expect that AI will be functionally equivalent to human intelligence but lacking an emotional aspect (14.4%). These profiles showed differences in terms of gender, openness to experience, cynical hostility towards humans, cynical hostility towards AI, and beliefs about how quickly AI will achieve human-level thinking. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

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