Third–Party Responses to Unfair Decisions by Artificial Intelligence versus Humans

For easier understanding of the results, we combined the six levels of unfairness into three levels: 100-0, 90-10 allocation defined as high unfairness situations (corresponding to TP_high), and 80-20, 70-30 allocation combinations as median unfairness situations (corresponding to TP_median), and the 60-40, 50-50 allocation were defined as low unfairness situations (corresponding to TP_low).

In addition gender, age, education level were collected as control variables.The experimental design of study2 was identical to study1, with the addition of TPoutrage_low, TPoutrage_median, and TPoutrage_high as the scores of the mediating variable moral outrage in the three unfairness situations. Responsibility attribution (TPFAE) scores were also measured, calculated from TPFAE_in-TPFAE_ex.