September 5, 2025Open Access

Conformity towards humans versus AI in different task domains: the type of task matters

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Conformity behavior showed a preference for human advice in aesthetics and morality tasks, and AI in knowledge tasks.
Previous experience with generative AI did not increase trust in its subjective abilities, highlighting user skepticism.
Participants' perceived task objectivity ratings did not predict conformity effectively, indicating a complexity in human-AI trust.
Public trust in AI is still rooted in traditional views, demonstrating a gap between evolving technology and perception.

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Online experiment revealed how task type influences conformity in public perception towards AI and humans.

Thorp et al. (2025) studied this question.

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