The AI behind the curtain: deception in human-AI experiments

Experimental economists don’t deceive their subjects. It’s not legislated, but break the norm and don’t expect to be published. Here’s Andreas Ortmann (2019) : I open with a statement of fact: deception in the form of acts of commission, while still widespread in (social) psychology and business sciences such as marketing, is factually banned in laboratory experimental economics. This ban is not…