AI Hallucinations? What About Human Hallucination?! Addressing Human Imperfection Is Needed for an Ethical AI.

Ahmed Tlili; Daniel Burgos

doi:10.9781/ijimai.2025.02.010

Authors

Ahmed Tlili Beijing Normal University (BNU).
Daniel Burgos Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, MIU City University Miami.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9781/ijimai.2025.02.010

Keywords:

Artificial Hallucination, Ethics, Human Hallucination, Human-Machine Collaboration, Morals and Responsibility

Supporting Agencies

This work is supported by the research grants, Research on Strategies for Improving Students’ Ability to Solve Complex Problems through Human-Computer Collaboration based on ChatGPT (Grant ID: 1233100004) and Mechanism and Teaching Intervention Research on the Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on College Students’ Creative Problem-Solving (Grant ID: 24YTC880129).

Abstract

This study discusses how the human imperfection nature, also known as the human hallucination, could contribute to or emphasize technology (generally) and Artificial Intelligence (AI, particularly) hallucination. While the ongoing debate puts more efforts on improving AI for its ethical use, a shift should be made to also cover us, humans, who are the technology designer, developer, and user. Identifying and understanding the link between human and AI hallucination will ultimately help to develop effective and safe AI-powered systems that could have some positive societal impact in the long run.

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