Flutterby™! : Knowing less about AI makes it more magical

From the department of "don't anthropomorphize computers, they hate that": The Conversation: Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives

EXPRESS: Lower Artificial Intelligence Literacy Predicts Greater AI Receptivity Stephanie Tully, Chiara Longoni, and Gil Appel

This lower literacy-greater receptivity link is not explained by differences in perceptions of AI’s capability, ethicality, or feared impact on humanity. Instead, this link occurs because people with lower AI literacy are more likely to perceive AI as magical and experience feelings of awe in the face of AI’s execution of tasks that seem to require uniquely human attributes.

https://doi.org/10.1177/00222429251314491

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