MSE Seminar on “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Role of AI Quality Disclosure in Lie Detection” Dr. Haimanti Bhattacharya, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA on 24th Jan 2025 at 4:30 pm
Speaker: Dr. Haimanti Bhattacharya, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Date & Time: 24th Jan 2025 (Friday) from 4:15 pm to 5:15 pm
Venue: Mini-Auditorium (2nd Floor, New Academic block)
Title of the paper: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Role of AI Quality Disclosure in Lie Detection”
About the Speaker: See the link https://sites.google.com/view/haimanti-bhattacharya-academic/home
Abstract of the paper: We investigate how low-quality AI advisors, lacking quality disclosures, can help spread text-based lies while seeming to help people detect lies. Participants in our experiment discern truth from lies by evaluating transcripts from a game show that mimicked deceptive social media exchanges on topics with objective truths. We find that when relying on low-quality advisors without disclosures, participants’ truth-detection rates fall below their own abilities, which recovered once the AI’s true effectiveness was revealed. Conversely, high-quality advisor enhances truth detection, regardless of disclosure. We discover that participants’ expectations about AI capabilities contribute to their undue reliance on opaque, low-quality advisors.
