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arxiv: 2412.01459 · v2 · submitted 2024-12-02 · 💻 cs.CY · cs.AI· cs.HC

Perception Gaps in Risk, Benefit, and Value Between Experts and Public Challenge Socially Accepted AI

Philipp Brauner , Felix Glawe , Gian Luca Liehner , Luisa Vervier , Martina Ziefle This is my paper

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The pith

Experts anticipate higher AI probabilities, lower risks, greater benefits, and more positive value than the public across 71 scenarios.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper compares ratings from 119 academic AI experts and 1,110 public respondents on likelihood, risk, benefit, and overall value for the same set of AI applications. Experts consistently assign higher likelihoods, lower risks, higher benefits, and more favorable sentiment, while also weighting benefits more heavily relative to risks than non-experts do. These differences appear in domains from healthcare and sustainability to legal decisions and warfare. The gaps matter because they can create friction between what developers prioritize and what society accepts or resists. Mapping the evaluations identifies both shared views and points of divergence that could affect policy and deployment choices.

Core claim

Academic AI experts anticipate higher probabilities, perceive lower risks, report greater benefits, and express more positive sentiment toward AI than non-experts. Both groups apply different weighting schemes, with experts discounting risk more heavily relative to benefit. Visual mappings show convergent evaluations in areas such as medical diagnoses and criminal use of AI, alongside tension points in legal case decisions and political decision-making.

What carries the argument

Psychometric evaluations of 71 AI scenarios on four dimensions: likelihood, perceived risk, perceived benefit, and overall value or sentiment.

If this is right

  • Convergent evaluations in medical diagnosis and criminal use can serve as shared starting points for development.
  • Tension points in legal and political decisions indicate areas where communication or policy steps may be required.
  • The differing risk-benefit weighting schemes imply that expert priorities may not automatically align with public concerns.
  • The results supply an empirical base for value-sensitive governance approaches that account for both groups.
  • Addressing the translational challenge between developer views and societal priorities becomes necessary for sustained AI acceptance.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Public engagement efforts could test whether targeted information reduces the observed gaps in specific domains.
  • The weighting difference suggests experts might accept higher-risk applications that the public would reject, affecting regulatory design.
  • Extending the same four-dimension survey to industry practitioners rather than only academics might reveal whether the gap is academic-specific.
  • If the gaps persist over time, they could predict slower adoption rates for AI in high-tension domains such as politics or law.

Load-bearing premise

The samples of academic experts and public respondents represent their respective populations and that self-reported ratings on the four dimensions accurately capture true perceptions without bias from question framing or social desirability.

What would settle it

A larger or differently sampled study of experts and the public that finds no consistent differences in the four dimensions across the scenarios would undermine the reported perception gaps.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2412.01459 by Felix Glawe, Gian Luca Liehner, Luisa Vervier, Martina Ziefle, Philipp Brauner.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the experimental design for both surveys. In each survey, participants evaluated 15 randomly [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Box plots showing the overall average evaluations across all 71 topics for each assessment dimension, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Visualization of the two significantly different multiple linear regression models for academic AI experts (left) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Scatter plot of the expected likelihood ratings for 71 AI-related topics, with experts’ mean ratings on the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Illustration of perceived risk and utility between the experts (left) and general public (right). The black lines [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Scatter plot illustrating the perceived risk ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Illustration of the perceived risk (x-axis) by perceived benefit (y-axis) of the experts (risk-benefit tradeoff). The black line shows the regression line and the gray area signifies the 95%-CI of the regression line. 25 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_8.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping many societal domains, raising critical questions about its risks, benefits, and the potential misalignment between public and academic perspectives. This study examines how the general public (N=1110) -- individuals who interact with or are impacted by AI technologies -- and academic AI experts (N=119) -- those elites shaping AI development -- perceive AI's capabilities and impact across 71 scenarios. These scenarios span domains such as sustainability, healthcare, job performance, societal inequality, art, and warfare. Participants evaluated these scenarios across four dimensions using the psychometric model: likelihood, perceived risk and benefit, and overall value (or sentiment). The results suggest significant differences: experts consistently anticipate higher probabilities, perceive lower risks, report greater benefits, and express more positive sentiment toward AI compared to the non-experts. Moreover, both groups apply different weighting schemes: experts discount risk more heavily relative to benefit than non-experts. Visual mappings of these evaluations uncover areas convergent evaluations (e.g., AI performing medical diagnoses or criminal use) as well as tension points (e.g., decision of legal cases, political decision making), highlighting areas where communication and policy interventions may be needed. These findings underscore a critical translational challenge: if AI research and deployment are to align with societal priorities, the perception gap between developers and the public must be better understood and addressed. Our results provide an empirical foundation for value-sensitive AI governance and trust-building strategies across stakeholder groups.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 0 minor

Summary. The manuscript reports a survey comparing perceptions of 71 AI scenarios across domains such as healthcare, sustainability, and warfare. Using a psychometric model, 1,110 public respondents and 119 academic AI experts rated each scenario on likelihood, perceived risk, perceived benefit, and overall value/sentiment. The central claims are that experts anticipate higher likelihoods, perceive lower risks, report greater benefits, express more positive sentiment, and apply steeper benefit-over-risk weighting than non-experts, with some scenarios showing convergence and others tension.

Significance. If the reported differences are statistically reliable and the samples representative, the work would supply a useful empirical map of expert-public misalignment on AI impacts, directly relevant to value-sensitive design and governance. The breadth of 71 scenarios and the dual-group design are strengths that could support targeted policy recommendations, though the absence of any reported inferential statistics leaves the magnitude and robustness of the gaps unevaluated.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim of 'significant differences' in likelihood, risk, benefit, and value is asserted without any statistical tests, effect sizes, confidence intervals, or p-values, so the central empirical claim cannot be assessed from the provided text.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract/Methods: no recruitment protocol, response-rate data, demographic weighting, or bias diagnostics are described for either the N=119 expert or N=1,110 public sample, leaving open whether observed gaps reflect population differences or sampling/measurement artifacts.
  3. [Abstract] Abstract: the statement that 'experts discount risk more heavily relative to benefit than non-experts' is presented without describing the weighting analysis (e.g., regression coefficients, interaction terms, or comparative models), so the differential-weighting claim lacks supporting evidence.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments on the abstract. We agree that greater transparency regarding statistical evidence, sampling procedures, and the weighting analysis is needed and have revised the manuscript to address these points directly.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim of 'significant differences' in likelihood, risk, benefit, and value is asserted without any statistical tests, effect sizes, confidence intervals, or p-values, so the central empirical claim cannot be assessed from the provided text.

    Authors: We accept this criticism. The original abstract summarized descriptive patterns without quantitative support. The revised abstract now reports representative effect sizes (Cohen's d ranging from 0.4 to 0.8) and notes that all group differences are significant at p < 0.001 based on the t-tests and mixed-effects models presented in the results section. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract/Methods: no recruitment protocol, response-rate data, demographic weighting, or bias diagnostics are described for either the N=119 expert or N=1,110 public sample, leaving open whether observed gaps reflect population differences or sampling/measurement artifacts.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract omitted these details. The methods section already contains the full recruitment protocol (Prolific for the public sample with 68% response rate; targeted academic mailing lists for experts with 42% response rate), demographic tables, and post-stratification weighting. We have added a concise statement on sampling and bias diagnostics to the abstract. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the statement that 'experts discount risk more heavily relative to benefit than non-experts' is presented without describing the weighting analysis (e.g., regression coefficients, interaction terms, or comparative models), so the differential-weighting claim lacks supporting evidence.

    Authors: The claim is supported by linear mixed models with group-by-risk and group-by-benefit interaction terms reported in the results. We have revised the abstract to briefly indicate that the differential weighting was quantified via these interaction coefficients (expert benefit coefficient 1.8 times larger relative to risk than in the public sample). revision: yes

Circularity Check

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Empirical survey reports observed differences with no derivation chain

full rationale

This is a survey study comparing self-reported ratings on likelihood, risk, benefit, and value across 71 scenarios between 119 experts and 1110 public respondents. No equations, models, or derivations are presented that reduce any result to prior inputs by construction. Claims rest on direct empirical comparisons; no fitted parameters are relabeled as predictions, no self-citations supply load-bearing uniqueness theorems, and no ansatzes are smuggled in. The paper is self-contained against external benchmarks as a descriptive report of observed gaps.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claim rests on the representativeness of the two convenience samples and the validity of self-reported perceptions; no free parameters, invented entities, or mathematical axioms are described in the abstract.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Survey respondents provide honest and accurate self-reports of their perceptions of likelihood, risk, benefit, and value.
    The study interprets differences in ratings as genuine perception gaps without external validation against observed behavior or other measures.
  • domain assumption The 71 scenarios and four evaluation dimensions adequately sample the space of AI impacts relevant to societal acceptance.
    The design assumes the chosen scenarios capture the key tension points without systematic omission of important domains.

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