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When Humans Obey AI: Development of the Obedience to Artificial Intelligence Scale and a Dual-Pathway Motivational Framework of Obedience to AI

2026-04-18

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<p>As artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly function as authority-like sources of direction, understanding why individuals obey AI directives is essential for anticipating when such deference may facilitate ethically problematic outcomes. This research conceptualises obedience to AI as the tendency to perceive AI systems as legitimate sources of authority and to defer to their directives, grounded in a...

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Literature Corpus work: eec44db6-ea7c-5f80-9b46-f063ce17b015
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/a63eq_v1

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