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100 _aSchiff, Kaylyn Jackson
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245 _aInstitutional factors driving citizen perceptions of AI in government: Evidence from a survey experiment on policing
260 _aPublic Administration Review
300 _a85(2), Mar, 2025: p.451-467
520 _aLaw enforcement agencies are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools. While prior work emphasizes the technological features driving public opinion, we investigate how public trust and support for AI in government vary with the institutional context. We administer a pre-registered survey experiment to 4200 respondents about AI use cases in policing to measure responsiveness to three key institutional factors: bureaucratic proximity (i.e., local sheriff versus national Federal Bureau of Investigation), algorithmic targets (i.e., public targets via predictive policing versus detecting officer misconduct through automated case review), and agency capacity (i.e., necessary resources and expertise). We find that the public clearly prefers local over national law enforcement use of AI, while reactions to different algorithmic targets are more limited and politicized. However, we find no responsiveness to agency capacity or lack thereof. The findings suggest the need for greater scholarly, practitioner, and public attention to organizational, not only technical, prerequisites for successful government implementation of AI.- Reproduced https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/puar.13754
773 _aPublic Administration Review
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