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Violated expectations

"Users may experience severely violated expectations when interacting with an entity that convincingly performs affect and social conventions but is ultimately unfeeling and unpredictable. Emboldened by the human-likeness of conversational AI assistants, users may expect it to perform a familiar social role, like companionship or partnership. Yet even the most convincingly human-like of AI may succumb to the inher...

AI Risk5. Human-Computer Interaction5.1 > Overreliance and unsafe use2 - Post-deployment

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Domain5. Human-Computer InteractionThe broad risk area this belongs to.

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"Users may experience severely violated expectations when interacting with an entity that convincingly performs affect and social conventions but is ultimately unfeeling and unpredictable. Emboldened by the human-likeness of conversational AI assistants, users may expect it to perform a familiar social role, like companionship or partnership. Yet even the most convincingly human-like of AI may succumb to the inherent limitations of its architecture, occasionally generating unexpected or nonsensical material in its interactions with users. When these exclamations undermine the expectations users have come to have of the assistant as a friend or romantic partner, feelings of profound disappointment, frustration and betrayal may arise (Skjuve et al., 2022)."

Domain5. Human-Computer Interaction
Subdomain5.1 > Overreliance and unsafe use
Entity1 - Human
Intent2 - Unintentional
Timing2 - Post-deployment
CategoryAnthropomorphism
SubcategoryViolated expectations

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