The Impact of Asymmetric AI Assistance on Decision-Making in Social Dilemmas: A Study on Human Augmentation in Economic Games

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2025-10-09

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Department of Computer Science

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en

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12

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AHs 2025 - Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference 2025, pp. 187-198

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Unequal access to AI augmentation may disrupt human cooperation. In this study, we address the impact of asymmetric AI assistance on decision-making in cooperative economic games, focusing on how AI augmentation influences trust, cooperation, and perceptions of fairness in scenarios involving augmented and non-augmented players. Using the Trust Game and the Prisoner's Dilemma, we conducted experiments in which participants interacted under varying conditions of AI access. We found that while AI augmentation did not significantly alter overall cooperation rates, it shaped social perceptions: non-augmented players viewed augmented counterparts as more competitive and less warm, predicting less cooperation in the Trust Game. These disparities in perception highlight the potential of AI augmentation to subtly influence human cooperation. On a larger scale, the findings emphasize the importance of designing equitable AI system access to prevent social divides and promote cooperation in AI-augmented societies.

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Game Theory, Human Augmentation, Human-Computer Interaction

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10.1145/3745900.3746084

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Shen, C, Karpus, J, Kosch, T, Fernandes, D, Mello, B, Welsch, R & Villa, S 2025, The Impact of Asymmetric AI Assistance on Decision-Making in Social Dilemmas: A Study on Human Augmentation in Economic Games. in Y Abdelrahman, A Vargo, A Withana, B Tag, N Henze & L Chan (eds), AHs 2025 - Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference 2025. ACM, pp. 187-198, Augmented Humans Conference, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 16/03/2025. https://doi.org/10.1145/3745900.3746084

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