Delegated Agency: How Accusation Involving AI Influence Blame Attribution in the U.S.

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Brief Overview

We investigated whether AI can cause blame shifting away from related political figures, and found that the blame attribution is moderated by people's attitudes towards AI as an epstimeic tool and an independent entity.

Authors

• Ziyi Wu, University of Notre Dame

• Zeyu Peng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology