4 papers
Large language models underestimate and partly misrepresent cultural variation in everyday norms
Kimmo Eriksson, Irina Vartanova, Pontus Strimling
A key aspect of culture is a society's norms about everyday behavior. How accurately do large language models (LLMs) represent cultural differences in such norms? To answer this qu…
Predicting consumer-technology ownership without a diffusion history
Irina Vartanova, Niels Selling, Jennifer Viberg Johansson +1
We test whether the perceived attributes of a consumer technology predict how widely it is owned. In a 2022 Prolific survey of US adults (n = 678), respondents rated 65 consumer te…
AI Models Exceed Individual Human Accuracy in Predicting Everyday Social Norms
Pontus Strimling, Simon Karlsson, Irina Vartanova +1
A fundamental question in cognitive science concerns how social norms are acquired and represented. While humans typically learn norms through embodied social experience, we invest…
What Makes AI Applications Acceptable or Unacceptable? A Predictive Moral Framework
Kimmo Eriksson, Simon Karlsson, Irina Vartanova +1
As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms society, developers and policymakers struggle to anticipate which applications will face public moral resistance. We propose that thes…