[en] Employees are increasingly using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools to facilitate and automate work processes. While this may seem beneficial at first glance, employees are also prone to (un)consciously sharing sensitive information, putting organizations at risk. So far, we lack insight into what drives disclosure behavior with GenAI tools. Drawing on construal-level theory, this study examines how psychological distance influences such behavior. Our survey of more than 198 working GenAI users suggests that social proximity as well as spatial, temporal, and hypothetical distance positively affects disclosure behavior. Our findings not only contribute to the current literature on GenAI but also help practitioners to understand how employees share sensitive information with GenAI tools.
Research center :
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > FINATRAX - Digital Financial Services and Cross-organizational Digital Transformations
Disciplines :
Management information systems
Author, co-author :
FRANK, Muriel-Larissa ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > FINATRAX
THARWAT, Ayah ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > FINATRAX
POCHER, Nadia ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > FINATRAX
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Far Enough to Share: Impact of Psychological Distance on GenAI Disclosure
Publication date :
2025
Event name :
Proceedings of the 31st Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
This work was funded by Luxembourg’s National Research Fund (FNR) and PayPal – PEARL grant ref. 13342933/Gilbert Fridgen. For open access purposes, the authors have applied a CC BY 4.0 license to any Author Accepted Manuscript arising from this submission.
