Christoph Riedl

Other studies, such as the one by Kelley and Riedl for Northeastern University , have provided evidence that the warmer, more personal, or more trusting the user’s relationship with AI, the more likely it is to validate their beliefs without question, even if they are erroneous or harmful. 

Christoph Riedl, a professor of information management at Northeastern University, says people’s reluctance to disclose AI assistance is entirely justified. 

Christoph Riedl, an information management professor at Northeastern University, says people’s hesitation to disclose AI assistance is entirely justified. 

“This time it’s goblins, and next time it’s something else that will probably just not go away. We’re lucky if it’s goblins as opposed to white supremacy or chemical weapons … or encouraging people to commit suicide,” said Christoph Riedl, a professor of computer science, information systems, and network science at Northeastern University.

A new study, Quantifying Human-AI Synergy, by Christoph Riedl of Northeastern University and Ben Weidmann of University College London may have the answer.