AI for Behavioural Science

Book Description

Artificial Intelligence for Behavioural Science is a concise introduction to emerging concepts and ideas found at the intersection of contemporary behavioural science and artificial intelligence. The book explores how these disciplines interact, change and adapt to one another, and what the implications of such an interaction are for practice and society.

The book begins by exploring the field of machine behaviour, which advocates using behavioural science to investigate artificial intelligence. This perspective is built upon to develop a framework of terminology which treats humans and machines as comparable entities possessive of their own motive power. From here, the notion of artificial intelligence systems becoming choice architects is explored through a series of reconceptualisations. The architecting of choices is reconceptualised as a process of selection from a set of choice architectural designs, while human behaviour is reconceptualised in terms of probabilistic outcomes. The material difference between so-called ‘manual nudging’ and ‘automatic nudging’ (or hypernudging) is then explored. The book concludes with a discussion of who is responsible for autonomous choice architects.

中文：

书名：行为科学人工智能

人工智能行为科学简明扼要地介绍了当代行为科学和人工智能交叉点上发现的新兴概念和思想。这本书探讨了这些学科如何相互作用，变化和适应，以及这种相互作用对实践和社会的影响。

本书首先探索了机器行为领域，该领域倡导使用行为科学来研究人工智能。这种观点是建立在开发术语框架的基础上的，该框架将人类和机器视为具有自身动力的可比实体。从这里开始，通过一系列重新概念化来探索人工智能系统成为选择架构师的概念。选择的架构被重新概念化为从一组选择的建筑设计中进行选择的过程，而人类行为则根据概率结果重新概念化。然后探讨了所谓的 “手动轻推” 和 “自动轻推” (或过度轻推) 之间的物质差异。本书最后讨论了谁负责自主选择建筑师。