TY - JOUR A1 - Feier, Till A1 - Gogoll, Jan A1 - Uhl, Matthias T1 - Hiding Behind Machines: Artificial Agents May Help to Evade Punishment JF - Science and Engineering Ethics N2 - The transfer of tasks with sometimes far-reaching implications to autonomous systems raises a number of ethical questions. In addition to fundamental questions about the moral agency of these systems, behavioral issues arise. We investigate the empirically accessible question of whether the imposition of harm by an agent is systematically judged differently when the agent is artificial and not human. The results of a laboratory experiment suggest that decision-makers can actually avoid punishment more easily by delegating to machines than by delegating to other people. Our results imply that the availability of artificial agents could provide stronger incentives for decision-makers to delegate sensitive decisions. UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-022-00372-7 KW - automation KW - ethics KW - experiment KW - responsibility KW - algorithm Y1 - 2022 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-022-00372-7 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-23155 SN - 1471-5546 SN - 1353-3452 VL - 28 IS - 2 PB - Springer Nature CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gogoll, Jan A1 - Uhl, Matthias T1 - Leviathan for sale BT - the fallacy of trusting in people instead of institutions JF - European Journal of Political Economy N2 - We experimentally test Hume’s hypothesis that people underappreciate the value of cooperation-enforcing institutions in impersonal interactions by relying on personal trust. Subjects played a game in groups of two or six. Each subject could defect at any time, leaving the others with zero payoff by unilaterally appropriating an amount of money that grew over a period of 5 ​minutes. All players received the maximum payoff only if nobody defected. Before the game, subjects could purchase a cooperation-enforcing institution. Their willingness to pay for this institution fell short of the loss caused by failed cooperation under institution-free play. This was even true for the best-off subject in an institution-free society. In the absence of learning, people indeed fell prey to the atavistic fallacy of trusting in people instead of institutions. Understanding this bias might help people in complex societies to acknowledge the value of institutions intellectually. UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2020.101898 KW - institutions KW - problem of two worlds KW - artificial virtues KW - trust KW - impersonal interactions KW - experiment Y1 - 2020 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2020.101898 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:573-16350 SN - 0176-2680 VL - 2020 IS - 63 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gogoll, Jan A1 - Uhl, Matthias T1 - Rage against the machine: Automation in the moral domain JF - Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2018.04.003 Y1 - 2018 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2018.04.003 SN - 2214-8043 N1 - Die Forschungsrohdaten zu diesem Artikel sind Open Access beim Originalartikel auf der Verlagsplattform verfügbar. VL - 2018 IS - 74 SP - 97 EP - 103 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -