Do You Trust Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. In a typical day, people likely use AI multiple times without even knowing it: Alexa and Siri, Google Maps, Uber and Lyft, autopilot on commercial flights, spam filters, and smart email categorization (so anyone using Gmail, Yahoo, or Office 365/outlook), mobile check deposits, plagiarism checkers, online searches, personalized recommendations, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest are all examples of AI. But what happens when people are being introduced to a new AI technology? How likely are they to trust the new technology? With an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Kansas, we set to find out.