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| author | Agnew, William Bergman, A. Stevie Chien, Jennifer Díaz, Mark El-Sayed, Seliem Pittman, Jaylen Mohamed, Shakir McKee, Kevin R. |
| author_facet | Agnew, William Bergman, A. Stevie Chien, Jennifer Díaz, Mark El-Sayed, Seliem Pittman, Jaylen Mohamed, Shakir McKee, Kevin R. |
| contents | Human participants play a central role in the development of modern artificial intelligence (AI) technology, in psychological science, and in user research. Recent advances in generative AI have attracted growing interest to the possibility of replacing human participants in these domains with AI surrogates. We survey several such "substitution proposals" to better understand the arguments for and against substituting human participants with modern generative AI. Our scoping review indicates that the recent wave of these proposals is motivated by goals such as reducing the costs of research and development work and increasing the diversity of collected data. However, these proposals ignore and ultimately conflict with foundational values of work with human participants: representation, inclusion, and understanding. This paper critically examines the principles and goals underlying human participation to help chart out paths for future work that truly centers and empowers participants. |
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| spellingShingle | The illusion of artificial inclusion Agnew, William Bergman, A. Stevie Chien, Jennifer Díaz, Mark El-Sayed, Seliem Pittman, Jaylen Mohamed, Shakir McKee, Kevin R. Computers and Society Human participants play a central role in the development of modern artificial intelligence (AI) technology, in psychological science, and in user research. Recent advances in generative AI have attracted growing interest to the possibility of replacing human participants in these domains with AI surrogates. We survey several such "substitution proposals" to better understand the arguments for and against substituting human participants with modern generative AI. Our scoping review indicates that the recent wave of these proposals is motivated by goals such as reducing the costs of research and development work and increasing the diversity of collected data. However, these proposals ignore and ultimately conflict with foundational values of work with human participants: representation, inclusion, and understanding. This paper critically examines the principles and goals underlying human participation to help chart out paths for future work that truly centers and empowers participants. |
| title | The illusion of artificial inclusion |
| topic | Computers and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08572 |