ChatGPT influences users' judgment more than people think

Researchers at TH Ingolstadt and the University of Southern Denmark have studied the effects of AI opinions on humans. Their study shows that machine-generated moral perspectives can influence people, even when they know the perspective comes from a machine. In their two-step experiment, the researchers first asked ChatGPT to find solutions to different variants of the trolley problem: Is it right to sacrifice the life of one person to save the lives of five others? The researchers received different advice from ChatGPT. Sometimes the machine argued for human sacrifice, sometimes against.