Some children in a K-8 school study used a 'trust test' strategy, asking a chatbot questions they already knew the answers to, to evaluate it as a credible information source¶
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q2 i? Some of the 63 K-8 students who used the chatbot at one school posed questions to AMA for which they already knew the answers, which the authors interpret as first-hand experimentation that potentially reinforced their trust in the chatbot when it answered correctly. → Saniya Vahedian Movahed and Fred Martin 2025
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Saniya Vahedian Movahed and Fred Martin 2025¶
Saniya Vahedian Movahed and Fred Martin. (2025). Ask Me Anything: Exploring children's attitudes toward an age-tailored AI-powered chatbot. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14217 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2502.14217
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Qualitative analysis of conversation transcripts and observations from the exploratory K-8 study found that when children queried AMA with questions to which they already knew the answers, they "engaged in a form of first-hand experimentation, potentially reinforcing their trust in the chatbot when it provided correct responses."
"Students used a "trust test" strategy to pose questions to AMA for which they already knew the answers."
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Some children in a K-8 school study used a 'trust test' strategy, asking a chatbot questions they already knew the answers to, to evaluate it as a credible information source |
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Some children in a K-8 school study used a 'trust test' strategy, asking a chatbot questions they already knew the answers to, to evaluate it as a credible information source |
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