A co-creation process for inferring and refining personal strivings from computer activity logs yields more representative goals and higher user agency than baselines in a 14-person week-long study.
AI and My Values: User Perceptions of LLMs' Ability to Extract, Embody, and Explain Human Values from Casual Conversations
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Does AI understand human values? While this remains an open philosophical question, we take a pragmatic stance by introducing VAPT, the Value-Alignment Perception Toolkit, for studying how LLMs reflect people's values and how people judge those reflections. 20 participants texted a chatbot over a month, then completed a 2-hour interview with our toolkit evaluating AI's ability to extract (pull details regarding), embody (make decisions guided by), and explain (provide proof of) their values. 13 participants ultimately left our study convinced that AI can understand human values. Thus, we warn about "weaponized empathy": a design pattern that may arise in interactions with value-aware, yet welfare-misaligned conversational agents. VAPT offers a new way to evaluate value-alignment in AI systems. We also offer design implications to evaluate and responsibly build AI systems with transparency and safeguards as AI capabilities grow more inscrutable, ubiquitous, and posthuman into the future.
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"What Are You Really Trying to Do?": Co-Creating Life Goals from Everyday Computer Use
A co-creation process for inferring and refining personal strivings from computer activity logs yields more representative goals and higher user agency than baselines in a 14-person week-long study.