Inevitable Psychological Mechanisms Triggered by Robot Appearance: Morality Included?

2016

Conference: Proceedings of the 2016 AAAI Spring Symposium

Malle, Bertram F. and Scheutz, Matthias

Certain stimuli in the environment reliably, and perhaps in- evitably, trigger human cognitive and behavioral responses. We suggest that the presence of such “trigger stimuli” in modern robots can have disconcerting consequences. We provide one new example of such consequences: a reversal of a pattern of moral judgments people make about robots, depending on whether they view a “mechanical” or a “hu- manoid” robot.

@inproceedings{mallescheutz16aaaiss,
  title={Inevitable Psychological Mechanisms Triggered by Robot Appearance: Morality Included?},
  author={Malle, Bertram F. and Scheutz, Matthias},
  year={2016},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2016 AAAI Spring Symposium},
  url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/mallescheutz16aaaiss.pdf}
}