Knowing less about AI makes it more magical
2025-01-21 17:17:44.922105+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
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
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.