AI presents a novel tool for deciphering the motivations behind human behaviors. We show that by varying prompts to a large language model, we can elicit a full range of human behaviors in a variety of different scenarios in terms of classic economic games. Then by analyzing which prompts are needed to elicit which behaviors, we can infer (decipher) the motivations behind the human behaviors. We also show how one can analyze the prompts to reveal relationships between the classic economic games, providing new insight into what different economic scenarios induce people to think about. We also show how this deciphering process can be used to understand differences in the behavioral tendencies of different populations.

翻译：人工智能为解读人类行为背后的动机提供了一种新颖工具。我们证明，通过调整大型语言模型的提示词，可以在经典经济博弈的各种不同场景中激发完整范围的人类行为。随后，通过分析激发特定行为所需的提示词，我们能够推断（解读）人类行为背后的动机。我们还展示了如何通过分析提示词来揭示经典经济博弈之间的关联，从而为理解不同经济场景如何影响人们的思维方式提供新见解。此外，我们论证了这种解读过程如何用于理解不同群体行为倾向的差异。