📚 And if the article piques your interest, here is the link to the full paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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We're grateful for generous support from @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social and the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods/DPIR.

The in-person workshop is open to the academic community; you can use the link in the next post to sign up. If you're interested in hearing about and discussing citizen perceptions, preferences, and priorities around AI with a stellar group of researchers, this might be for you.

The message to mainstream politicians: make the most of this window of opportunity to defuse the coming backlash before it sweeps you away!

Link to my paper (with Jane Gingrich and Jasmine Bhatia): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

That one can be an autoethnography then, gotta expand my methodological toolkit! 😅

I agree. But here is where AI can come in: we're developing a protocol for getting detailed occupation information (4-digit ISCO or 6-digit SOC) in online surveys. Combine that with a Big-Five battery or other psych measures, and some of these questions should become more tractable!

❗Our choice of treatment comes with limitations, such as a level of ambiguity regarding what people take away from the experience. But we think the paper offers some important insights that future work on AI and policy preferences can build on.

We're curious to hear what you think!

🤝We interpret this as prospective winners exhibiting sociotropic preferences to support (but not just compensate!) losers, perhaps because of lingering uncertainty over longer-term consequences.

More results (heterogeneous effects, text analysis of open-ended question) are in the paper.

🤔So, people are self-interested, hence they should be less supportive of social policies they don't expect to benefit from themselves, right?

But that's not what we found! Working with AI increased support for social policies, especially for providing training opportunities.

💡Working with AI in our tasks did not make people feel like they were at greater risk of losing their jobs. Overall, they became more optimistic about the consequences of AI, for themselves and for society.

We expected that people would follow the standard risk-insurance model: that seeing AI in action increases subjective risk and people respond by demanding compensation. But instead...

Indeed! We're currently developing a study that will allow us to look at exactly that. In general, it is surprising that psychological traits have played such a small role in the politics of tech change literature so far, considering the central role of subjective risk.