This paper shows that humans perceive the value of paintings made by AI as lower than the value of those made by humans when the creator of the work is known. This phenomenon occurs regardless of which style (figurative or abstract) the evaluated paintings have. The negative impact of the information that AI is the author of a painting is mediated by the author’s artistry (AA) and the overall impression (OI) the painting makes on participants. Moreover, it was found that people use context cues when assessing paintings made by humans and AI. The perceived value of a painting increases when the information about the value of the painting made by AI was provided as a context cue, indicating that people exclude works created by AI from the category of human-made art. The method used in the research is an experiment made with 296 respondents (42.6% female). The age of the participants ranged between 18 and 62 (M = 35.30, SD = 10.76).
3 October 2022 in Human Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments
Technology evolves together with humans. Across industrial revolutions, its role has evolved from that of a simple tool used by humans to that of intelligent decision-maker and teammate. In the post-digital era where ongoing advances in artificial intelligence are widely visible, the question arises regarding the extent to which technology will be “upgraded” into roles previously filled by human supervisors, thereby replacing persons in managerial positions. This text aims to delineate how the organizational role of technology has been transformed across decades and the forms that it currently takes within companies, with an eye to the future. We draw on posthuman managerial literature and known cases of organizations where some forms of supervisory artificial intelligence are already used. The text is conceptual-reflective by nature; it seeks to initiate a discussion on the many challenges that humanity will face in connection with the deployment of empowered posthuman agents in companies.
12 April 2022 in International Journal of Consumer Studies
The aim of the article is to postulate introducing and developing positive cyberpsychology (PCyb) as a subdiscipline of cyberpsychology, which emerges at the intersection of cyberpsychology, positive psychology, and well-being informed design, and focuses on studying determinants of human well-being through interactions with and via technology. The article presents the rationale for considering the emergence of PCyb based on the importance of research on the positive transformation of people in the era of progressive digitalization and cyborgization, and the growing partnership of cyberpsychology, positive psychology, and well-being informed design in the form of paradigms and ongoing research. Moreover, it highlights the need to reframe cyberpsychology dominated by the study of the “dark side” of technology and the need to integrate and increase the “visibility” of research results on the beneficial effects of technology. The article also accentuates the opening perspective of a more in-depth analysis of the positive transformation process than the one existing within the well-being informed design and underlines a broader plan of innovation use than is taken into account in cyberpsychology and positive psychology. Lastly, it discusses the use of the results of research conducted within PCyb in the design of new technologies, consulting, and education, as well as the possibility of strengthening the voice of psychologists in the debate about the future of humans functioning in the constantly changing technosphere.