Unveiling the role of honesty-humility in shaping attitudes towards artificial intelligence

IF 2.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL Personality and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-30 DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2025.113072

Sarah Zabel , Pamela Pensini , Siegmar Otto

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The rapid advancement and integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into various aspects of human life necessitates understanding individual differences in attitudes towards AI. Typically, the Big Five has been applied to explore these individual differences; however, this model may overlook a critical dimension related to ethical AI use: Honesty-Humility, a sixth dimension included in the HEXACO model. In three studies (N₁ = 138, N₂ = 176, N₃ = 1571), we investigated the relationship between personality traits, as measured by the HEXACO, and attitudes towards AI. Consistently across all studies, the strongest (negative) relation was found between Honesty-Humility and a positive attitude towards AI (β₁ = −0.36^⁎⁎, β ₂ = −0.20^⁎⁎, β₃ = −0.28^⁎⁎⁎), suggesting that individuals scoring lower on Honesty-Humility are more inclined to view AI favorably. Additionally, Openness (β₂ = 0.18^⁎, β₃ = 0.06^**) was related to attitude towards AI in two studies. Relationships with other personality traits were minor and inconsistent. The predictive power of Honesty-Humility was higher than the other five dimensions of the HEXACO combined, and higher than the three traits of the Dark Triad - Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy. Our results stress the need to incorporate personality psychology into AI research and ethical AI development.

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人工智能（AI）的快速发展和融入人类生活的各个方面，需要理解个体对人工智能的态度差异。通常，大五人格被用来探索这些个体差异；然而，这个模型可能忽略了与道德人工智能使用相关的一个关键维度：诚实-谦卑，这是HEXACO模型中包含的第六个维度。在三项研究中（N1 = 138, N2 = 176, N3 = 1571），我们调查了HEXACO测量的人格特征与对AI的态度之间的关系。所有研究一致发现，诚实-谦逊与对人工智能的积极态度之间存在最强烈的（负）关系（β1 = - 0.36, β 2 = - 0.20, β3 = - 0.28），表明诚实-谦逊得分较低的个体更倾向于对人工智能持积极态度。在两项研究中，开放性（β2 = 0.18, β3 = 0.06**）与人工智能态度有关。与其他人格特征的关系较小且不一致。诚实谦卑的预测能力比HEXACO的其他五个维度加起来都要高，比黑暗三位一体的三个特征——自恋、马基雅维利主义和精神病还要高。我们的研究结果强调了将人格心理学纳入人工智能研究和人工智能伦理发展的必要性。

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Personality and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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8.50

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4.70%

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577

审稿时长

41 days

期刊介绍： Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.