Research Article

Transparency Enhances Positive Perceptions of Social Artificial Intelligence

Table 3

Descriptive statistics of outcome variables.

Experimental groups
Human controlNontransparent intelligentNontransparent machineTransparent intelligentTransparent machine

Poststudy perceived AI knowledgeNA14.90 (3.90)15.07 (3.74)16.60 (2.45)16.73 (2.43)
Creepiness
 Raw score2.65 (1.02)2.63 (1.04)2.63 (1.10)2.46 (1.10)2.56 (1.10)
 Latent variable0.06 (0.63)0.03 (0.65)0.03 (0.68)-0.10 (0.70)-0.02 (0.71)
Affinity
 Raw score2.85 (0.98)2.98 (0.98)2.98 (0.94)3.06 (0.95)3.12 (0.90)
 Latent variable-0.12 (0.74)-0.01 (0.74)-0.02 (0.68)0.05 (0.70)0.10 (0.65)
Social intelligence
 Raw score3.06 (0.86)3.11 (0.82)3.15 (0.83)3.19 (0.76)3.23 (0.76)
 Latent variable-0.09 (0.51)-0.03 (0.51)0.00 (0.55)0.04 (0.43)0.08 (0.44)
Agency
 Raw score3.39 (0.67)3.25 (0.79)3.25 0.803.21 (0.79)3.33 (0.74)
 Latent variable0.07 (0.34)-0.02 (0.43)-0.02 (0.45)-0.06 (0.44)0.03 (0.41)

Note. Standard deviations are in parentheses. For the raw scores, 1 = strongly disagree; 2 = disagree; 3 = agree; 4 = strongly agree.