NIHAI: Norms in language-based Human-AI Interaction
As misinformation, fake news, and conspiracy theories circulate ever more freely, trust in media, science, and government is eroding. This challenge will intensify further, as we increasingly communicate with, and by aid of, large language models.
Our three-year research project seeks to devise principles for responsible LLM communication: Philosophically and empirically informed rules, that specify what LLMs should and should not say. To do so, we aim to understand what people expect in conversations with AI, how they respond when these expectations aren’t met, and whether their expectations and reactions differ across languages and cultures. Subsequently, we’ll propose guidelines for designing AI systems that communicate responsibly and transparently. We will also test the envisioned novel guidelines with industry partners who provide language-based AI applications.
Keywords:
misinformation crisis, fake news, norms of assertion, ai ethics, human-ai interaction, responsible communication.
Consortium:
Project Leader: Markus Kneer, University of Graz, Austria
Izabela Skoczeń, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Mihaela Constantinescu, University of Bucharest, Romania
Markus Christen, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Associate partners:
Aleksander Smwyiński-Pohl (CEO), Enelpol, Poland
Angela Kaya (Head of Regional and Athens Institutes), Goethe Institut, Greece
Diana Sałacka (Head of Promotion Team), Copernicus Festival, Poland
Günther Repitsch (Business Development), Imendo, Austria
Hannes Grassegger (CEO), Polaris News, Switzerland
Oana Romocea (RSF Co-Founder), Romanian Science Festival, Romania
PD Dr. Markus Christen (Managing Director), Digital Society Initiative, Switzerland
Theo von Däniken (Organising Committee), Scientifica, Switzerland
Zbigniew Skolicki (Head of AI), VirtusLab, Poland
Cooperation partners:
Jean-François Bonnefon, Toulouse School of Economics, France
Bertram Malle, Brown University, United States
Jana Lasser, Institute for Interactive Systems and Data Science Graz University of Technology, Austria
Ophelia Deroy, LMU Munich, Germany
Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburg, United States
Julian Savulescu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Saskia Nagel, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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