15:30 - 17:00
Location: Multi-Function Room 1 (19/F LAU)
Chair/s:
Songfa Zhong
Songfa Zhong - Understanding the Mechanism of Altruism in Large Language Models
Yuwen Zhou - Fairness Versus Efficiency in AI Advice: Evidence from Human and LLM Responses
Yiting Chen - Social Identity and Human-AI Task Allocation
Xiaoli Guo - Salience of Disadvantaged Position Reduces AI Aversion in Moral Delegation
Submission 76
Fairness Versus Efficiency in AI Advice: Evidence from Human and LLM Responses
Panel 1-Multi-Function Room 1 (19/F LAU)-02
Presented by: Yuwen Zhou
Hongying Luo, Yohanes Eko Riyanto, Yuwen Zhou
Nanyang Technological University
AI advice can help groups coordinate, but it may also allocate the costs of coordination unequally. We examine this trade-off in a repeated three-player threshold public-good game, where efficiency requires the two lowest-cost players to contribute. An LLM advisor provides either private, personalized advice or public, group-level advice. Among LLM agents, group advice almost eliminates coordination failure, but it does so by concentrating contribution costs on particular players. Human participants respond differently. When exposed to the same advice, they often sacrifice efficiency for equality: they contribute less, provide the public good less frequently, and reject costly contribution recommendations, yet achieve a more equal distribution of net payoffs. These findings suggest that AI advice can resolve coordination problems, but it does not eliminate the distributional conflict generated by efficiency-enhancing recommendations.