AI-mediated communication is designed to help us do our work more quickly and efficiently. But does it come at a cost? This study uses smart replies (SRs) to show how AI influences humans without any intent on the part of the developer - the very use of AI is sufficient. I propose a loss of agency theory as a viable approach for studying the impact of AI on human agency. I use mixed methods involving a crowdsourced experiment to test the theory and qualitative interviews to elucidate non-use of AI. My quantitative results reveal that machine agency affects the content we author and the behavior we generate. But it is a non-zero-sum game.

翻译：人工智能中介通信旨在帮助我们更快、更高效地开展工作。 但是,这是否是一种成本呢?本研究报告使用聪明的回答(SRs)来显示人工智能如何影响人类而没有开发者的任何意向----光是使用人工智能就足够了。我提议丧失机构理论作为研究人工智能对人体机的影响的可行方法。我使用混合方法,包括多方源实验,以测试理论和定性访谈来说明人工智能的不使用。我的定量结果显示机器机构影响我们作者的内容和我们产生的行为。但它是一个非零和游戏。