The role of experts in the public perception of risk of artificial intelligence

Autor(es)

Neri, Hugo ; Cozman, Fabio

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: AI & SOCIETY; v. 35, n. 3, p. 11-pg., 2019-11-15.

Resumo

The goal of this paper is to describe the mechanism of the public perception of risk of artificial intelligence. For that we apply the social amplification of risk framework to the public perception of artificial intelligence using data collected from Twitter from 2007 to 2018. We analyzed when and how there appeared a significant representation of the association between risk and artificial intelligence in the public awareness of artificial intelligence. A significant finding is that the image of the risk of AI is mostly associated with existential risks that became popular after the fourth quarter of 2014. The source of that was the public positioning of experts who happen to be the real movers of the risk perception of AI so far instead of actual disasters. We analyze here how this kind of risk was amplified, its secondary effects, what are the varieties of risk unrelated to existential risk, and what is the dynamics of the experts in addressing their concerns to the audience of lay people. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 18/09681-4 - Avaliação dos esquemas de Winograd e o uso de conhecimento de senso comum para resolução de ambiguidades
• Beneficiário: Hugo Neri Munhoz
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Pós-Doutorado
• Processo FAPESP: 19/07665-4 - Centro de Inteligência Artificial
• Beneficiário: Fabio Gagliardi Cozman
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Programa eScience e Data Science - Centros de Pesquisa em Engenharia