Mengqi Liao
AI systems collect our personal information in order to provide per sonalized services, raising privacy concerns and making users leery. As a result, systems have begun emphasizing overt over covert collection of information by directly asking users. This poses an important question for ethical interaction design, which is ded icated to improving user experience while promoting informed decision-making: Should the interface tout the benefts of infor mation disclosure and frame itself as a help-provider? Or, should it appear as a help-seeker? We decided to fnd out by creating a mockup of a news recommendation system called Mindz and conducting an online user study (N=293) with the following four variations: AI system as help seeker vs. help provider vs. both vs. neither. Data showed that even though all participants received the same recommendations, power users tended to trust a help-seeking Mindz more whereas non-power users favored one that is both help-seeker and help-provider. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); Empirical studies in HCI.