Artificial Intelligence can help scientists in the social domain to identify patterns in the behavior of societies and study the drivers behind these behaviors. In turn they can change these drivers and again use AI to identify the new patterns and discover if these changes have any impact on the behavior of these societies. In general yes the role of AI is crucial in helping many scientists in changing human behavior.

In absolute terms, I don't think ... artificial intelligence is a simplistic derivation of natural intelligence and therefore I do not know how. Why not think to share the values of humanity to humans to overcome the problems of racism and intolerance ... ask the machines to have "human" behavior ... it's easier to teach them to humans

AI is important for the development of humanity, I believe that through it humans can learn more.

Another example of successful AI is the use with autistic children who can talk better with machines.

Great article.

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Thanks all for your valued opinions. As AI is getting more and more embedded in our lives and devices, and since it is learning from the patterns of human behavior, it seems a good approach to make AI learn more about the positive aspects of humans behavior (which are in line with the universal humanity values), rather than just observing and learning all the behaviors (which include biases and negative behaviors). When human values are enforced and encouraged by intelligent systems, the people with undesirable behavior would learn better and may change their perspective and behavior. I think the relationship of humans and AI can be a two-way relationship, and AI has the capacity to improve our societies in various aspects.

Thanks@Hussam Mohammed , it seems an interesting article. I will find the full text article for further study.

Recently, there’s been a lot of hype around artificial intelligence and the role it will play in the business ecosystem. As head of marketing for a startup that boasts an AI component, it’s a conversation we’ve had in the past and a constant source of tension in our current business model.

AI is a complicated subject. On one hand, it’s an exciting technology that is pushing the limits of software with unlimited potential. On the other hand, there are many individuals who view AI as a legitimate threat that could replace them at any moment, ultimately ushering in an era of man versus machine.

Regardless of what you believe, AI is here stay. What hasn’t been determined is which philosophy will win -- but I firmly believe that the relationship between humans and AI is one of enhancement, not replacement.

As you well mentioned, AI is emerging and inevitably is integrating into our lives, and for those of us who keep up with science and technology there should be no fear of replacement, as the previous technologies have not replaced humans, they just help human beings to focus more on the creative jobs rather than repetitive tasks which can be done by machines.

I think AI may not be able to improve human behavior. However, AI can know the form of human behavior. For example, knowing human emotions (happy, sad, angry, etc.) seen from the human face image or can be seen from the form of comments or status in social media (instagram, facebook, etc.). Another example is knowing human behavior in terms of human body movement. So, in my opinion, AI only helps to know the form of human behavior but to change it not necessarily can.

Dr Inventor was an EU project to enhance the creativity of research scientists, by discovering novel analogies between scientific publications. The test-bed for the project focused on research in computer graphics.

Perhaps 1/3 of its discovered analogies were rated highly by researchers. Surprisingly, more experienced researchers got better 'value' from its comparisons than novice researchers! (http://drinventor.eu).

Yes, AI able to change human behavior since humans are far more willing to form a relationship with AI software and humans are strategic in nature. We have seen how technology like social media can be powerful in changing human beliefs and behavior. When human values are stimulated and cheered by intelligent systems, people with objectionable behavior would learn better and may change their behavior or view point.

Also, researchers in Singapore have started a trial of a smartphone app that attempts to use artificial intelligence to influence the real-world decisions of users. Please see the link below.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3002256/can-artificial-intelligence-influence-human-behavior-a-trial-will-find-out.html

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Modestus

Thanks all for your valued opinions and research recommendations.

Thank you Laleh for your interesting and educative question.

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Modestus.

This is an interesting research question, therefore nobody can answer without having some experiments.

Thank you @Dr. Ahmad Hassanat for your inspiring answer. Could you briefly enlighten me about possible research approaches and methods to investigate this question? Or if you know any particular project in this regard, I'd be glad if you could share.

Am not expert in human behavior, but I could feel positive behavior of some officials here in my country when converting to AI systems and computer systems in general, they could not practice dirty games favoring relatives in jobs or scholarships as these procedures are computerized and systems select candidate based on specific criteria, so those guys become straight again - at least for a while, however, using computers (somehow) eliminated some dirty games of some people.

so you may do a questionnaire and/or interview study to see if this factor affected officials' behavior in your country.

Thank you for your great answer and very practical insight.

there are three mainly pillars of human behavior improvement. 1. family,2.society 3.education. and of course AI isn't one of them. but because generally AI make kind of relationship with its subject most of the people who are experienced working with AI fells been watched. its improved human taking care of their behavior when feel present of something or been watched. in that case i thin AI could help but if you asking fundamentally could improve behavior, no i don't think so.

There is another aspect related to biometrics, which depend mainly on computer vision and AI in general. Biometric traits such as fingerprint, Iris, face, hand biometrics, etc, those which are left behind everyone can identify persons easily using different AI systems.

Having know this by individuals, criminals and terrorists allows for a rethink before doing a crime, and this of course affects the behavior of humans positively.

For example when terrorists learn about my recent research on terrorists'identification using their victory signs, they will not be seen in videos killing Innocent people performing such signs anymore. and they might rethink the whole thing.

Conference Paper Victory sign biometric for terrorists identification: Prelim...

With current and future research on biometrics there is no place to hide, this is bad in terms of our privacy and freedom, but at least it keeps the world safer.

Artificial Intelligence can help scientists in the social domain to identify patterns in the behavior of societies and study the drivers behind these behaviors. In turn they can change these drivers and again use AI to identify the new patterns and discover if these changes have any impact on the behavior of these societies. In general yes the role of AI is crucial in helping many scientists in changing human behavior.

Thanks Dr. Awad, I totally agree with you. The computational social science is a very interesting and promising new interdisciplinary field in this regard.