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To evaluate how individuals perceive and allocate moral responsibility versus practical loss responsibility when acting on erroneous artificial intelligence outputs.

August 15, 2026Open Access

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CFChen-Chieh FanNational Taiwan University

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Mixed-methods study reveals strong user internalization of loss responsibility from artificial intelligence outputs across diverse populations, indicating consistent ethical intuitions.

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To evaluate how individuals perceive and allocate moral responsibility versus practical loss responsibility when acting on erroneous artificial intelligence outputs.
Conducted a convergent mixed-methods street-intercept interview protocol across public park and university campus sites in Taipei, Taiwan (N=328 valid interviews across 33 nationalities).
Evaluated responses using two core quantitative anchors—moral error attribution (Q1) and practical loss responsibility allocation (Q2)—supplemented by ten rotating contextual question sets.
User internalization of practical loss responsibility reached 79% overall, showing robust consistency across age, gender, nationality, and AI tool choice stratifications.
Moral attribution to AI was moderated by user experience, declining from 52% among non-AI users to 33% in short-term users and 24% in long-term users.
A structural epistemic gap occurred between questions: 71% of respondents who morally attributed errors to AI in Q1 nonetheless assigned practical loss responsibility to the user in Q2.

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Chen-Chieh Fan (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a801a0e75c2e31742c8673f https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21912200

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Mixed-methods study reveals strong user internalization of loss responsibility from artificial intelligence outputs across diverse populations, indicating consistent ethical intuitions.

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