The Interplay between Human and Machine Agency
J. Brian Pickering, Vegard Engen, Paul Walland

TL;DR
This paper explores the complex relationship between human and machine agency in networks affecting various aspects of life, analyzing trust, risk, regulation, and social influence through a literature-based model.
Contribution
It presents a novel model that maps the dependencies between human and machine agency, trust, risk, regulation, and social influence based on comprehensive literature review.
Findings
Identifies key dependencies between human and machine agency.
Highlights the importance of trust and regulation in human-machine networks.
Provides a conceptual framework for understanding social influence in these networks.
Abstract
Human-machine networks affect many aspects of our lives: from sharing experiences with family and friends, knowledge creation and distance learning, and managing utility bills or providing feedback on retail items, to more specialised networks providing decision support to human operators and the delivery of health care via a network of clinicians, family, friends, and both physical and virtual social robots. Such networks rely on increasingly sophisticated machine algorithms, e.g., to recommend friends or purchases, to track our online activities in order to optimise the services available, and assessing risk to help maintain or even enhance people's health. Users are being offered ever increasing power and reach through these networks by machines which have to support and allow users to be able to achieve goals such as maintaining contact, making better decisions, and monitoring their…
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Taxonomy
TopicsDigital Mental Health Interventions · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
