Research seminar by Prof. Haimanti Bhattacharya

Posted on February 7, 2025 by administrator

IIM K hosted its Eleventh research seminar on February 6, 2025, for the year 2024-25. It was conducted by Prof. Haimanti Bhattacharya is a Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, USA.

The topic was The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Role of AI Quality Disclosure in Lie Detection

Abstract of the talk given below

We investigate how low-quality AI advisors, lacking quality disclosures, can help spread text-based lies while seeming to help people detect lies. Participants in our experiment discern truth from lies by evaluating transcripts from a game show that mimicked deceptive social media exchanges on topics with objective truths. We find that when relying on low-quality advisors without disclosures, participants’ truth-detection rates fall below their own abilities, which recovered once the AI’s true effectiveness was revealed. Conversely, high quality advisor enhances truth detection, regardless of disclosure. We discover that participants’ expectations about AI capabilities contribute to their undue reliance on opaque, low- quality advisors.