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20142026
most citedThe social dilemma of autonomous vehicles

1.5k citations · 2k across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.HC2026

Time Machine Experiments: Using Historically-Bounded AI for Inquiry into the Human Mind

Hiromu Yakura, Robin Schimmelpfennig, Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez +5

Can interacting with someone from 1930, with no knowledge of what happened after, influence a person's perception of the past? People reason about the present against a picture of…

cs.HC2025★ 12 cited

The Science Fiction Science Method

Iyad Rahwan, Azim Shariff, Jean-François Bonnefon

Predicting the social and behavioral impact of future technologies, before they are achieved, would allow us to guide their development and regulation before these impacts get entr…

cs.HC2025

Humans learn to prefer trustworthy AI over human partners

Yaomin Jiang, Levin Brinkmann, Anne-Marie Nussberger +3

Partner selection is crucial for cooperation and hinges on communication. As artificial agents, especially those powered by large language models (LLMs), become more autonomous, in…

cs.CY2025

Experimental Evidence That AI-Managed Workers Tolerate Lower Pay Without Demotivation

Mengchen Dong, Levin Brinkmann, Omar Sherif +4

Experimental evidence on worker responses to AI management remains mixed, partly due to limitations in experimental fidelity. We address these limitations with a customized workpla…

cs.CY2024★ 1 cited

False consensus biases AI against vulnerable stakeholders

Mengchen Dong, Jean-François Bonnefon, Iyad Rahwan

The deployment of AI systems for welfare benefit allocation allows for accelerated decision-making and faster provision of critical help, but has already led to an increase in unfa…

cs.CY2024★ 6 cited

The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policy making

Valerio Capraro, Austin Lentsch, Daron Acemoglu +28

Generative artificial intelligence has the potential to both exacerbate and ameliorate existing socioeconomic inequalities. In this article, we provide a state-of-the-art interdisc…

cs.CY2023★ 121 cited

Machine Culture

Levin Brinkmann, Fabian Baumann, Jean-François Bonnefon +12

The ability of humans to create and disseminate culture is often credited as the single most important factor of our success as a species. In this Perspective, we explore the notio…

cs.AI2023★ 5 cited

Artificial Intelligence can facilitate selfish decisions by altering the appearance of interaction partners

Nils Köbis, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Tamer Ajaj +3

The increasing prevalence of image-altering filters on social media and video conferencing technologies has raised concerns about the ethical and psychological implications of usin…

econ.GN2022★ 2 cited

Lie detection algorithms attract few users but vastly increase accusation rates

Alicia von Schenk, Victor Klockmann, Jean-François Bonnefon +2

People are not very good at detecting lies, which may explain why they refrain from accusing others of lying, given the social costs attached to false accusations - both for the ac…

cs.AI2018★ 26 cited

Blaming humans in autonomous vehicle accidents: Shared responsibility across levels of automation

Edmond Awad, Sydney Levine, Max Kleiman-Weiner +5

When a semi-autonomous car crashes and harms someone, how are blame and causal responsibility distributed across the human and machine drivers? In this article, we consider cases i…

cs.AI2017★ 235 cited

Cooperating with Machines

Jacob W. Crandall, Mayada Oudah, Tennom +7

Since Alan Turing envisioned Artificial Intelligence (AI) [1], a major driving force behind technical progress has been competition with human cognition. Historical milestones have…

cs.AI2016★ 2 cited

Experimental Assessment of Aggregation Principles in Argumentation-enabled Collective Intelligence

Edmond Awad, Jean-François Bonnefon, Martin Caminada +2

On the Web, there is always a need to aggregate opinions from the crowd (as in posts, social networks, forums, etc.). Different mechanisms have been implemented to capture these op…

cs.CY2015★ 1.5k cited

The social dilemma of autonomous vehicles

Jean-François Bonnefon, Azim Shariff, Iyad Rahwan

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) should reduce traffic accidents, but they will sometimes have to choose between two evils-for example, running over pedestrians or sacrificing itself and…

cs.SI2014★ 29 cited

Analytical reasoning task reveals limits of social learning in networks

Iyad Rahwan, Dmytro Krasnoshtan, Azim Shariff +1

Social learning -by observing and copying others- is a highly successful cultural mechanism for adaptation, outperforming individual information acquisition and experience. Here, w…

cs.AI2014★ 59 cited

On the Qualitative Comparison of Decisions Having Positive and Negative Features

Didier Dubois, Hélène Fargier, Jean-François Bonnefon

Making a decision is often a matter of listing and comparing positive and negative arguments. In such cases, the evaluation scale for decisions should be considered bipolar, that i…