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Cognitive offloading and the speedup illusion in human-AI interaction
Sunny Yu, Myra Cheng, Ahmad Jabbar +4
Large language models (LLMs) have the potential to boost human productivity by speeding up task completion -- provided users know when to offload cognitive work to them. But we do…
The efficiency-gain illusion: People underestimate the rate of AI use and overestimate its benefits on simple tasks
Sunny Yu, Myra Cheng, Ahmad Jabbar +4
People are increasingly turning to AI assistance for simple tasks, e.g., arithmetic, spell-check, and answering simple questions. But does AI assistance actually save users time an…
AI Automatons: AI Systems Intended to Imitate Humans
Alexandra Olteanu, Solon Barocas, Su Lin Blodgett +3
There is a growing proliferation of AI systems designed to mimic people's behavior, work, abilities, likenesses, or humanness -- systems we dub AI automatons. Individuals, groups,…
"I Am the One and Only, Your Cyber BFF": Understanding the Impact of GenAI Requires Understanding the Impact of Anthropomorphic AI
Myra Cheng, Alicia DeVrio, Lisa Egede +2
Many state-of-the-art generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly prone to anthropomorphic behaviors, i.e., to generating outputs that are perceived to be human-like. While this…