Can you count on a calculator? The role of agency and affect in judgments of robots as moral agents

IF 4.5 2区工程技术 Q1 COMPUTER SCIENCE, CYBERNETICS

Human-Computer Interaction Pub Date : 2022-06-13 DOI:10.1080/07370024.2022.2080552

Sari R. R. Nijssen, Barbara C. N. Müller, T. Bosse, M. Paulus

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Robots are becoming an integral part of society, and might soon take on roles involving making morally relevant decisions. In a pre-registered experiment (n = 184), we investigated which factors modulate the extent to which we trust a robot to make a moral choice. Specifically, the effects of anthropomorphic appearance and anthropomorphic agency and affect attributions were assessed. Participants were presented with moral dilemmas in which the individual having to make a decision was a humanoid or mechanical robot. Each robot was described in vignettes in which they were attributed with agency and/or affective states. Subsequently, participants’ implicit moral trust in the robot was measured, as well as explicit trust, perceived capability of the robot, and the extent to which they felt the robot was responsible for its choice. Both agency and affective state attributions were found to impact participants’ implicit and explicit trust as well as the perceived capability of the robot. Moreover, across conditions, mechanical robots were trusted significantly more than humanoid robots to take moral choices.

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你能用计算器数吗?代理和情感在机器人作为道德主体的判断中的作用

机器人正在成为社会不可分割的一部分，可能很快就会承担起做出道德相关决定的角色。在一项预先注册的实验(n = 184)中，我们调查了哪些因素会影响我们对机器人做出道德选择的信任程度。具体地说，我们评估了拟人化外表和拟人化代理和情感归因的影响。参与者面临道德困境，在这种情况下，个人必须做出决定是人形还是机械机器人。每个机器人都被描述为具有代理和/或情感状态的小插曲。随后，研究人员测量了参与者对机器人的内隐道德信任、外显信任、机器人的感知能力，以及他们认为机器人对自己的选择负责的程度。代理状态归因和情感状态归因都影响参与者的内隐信任和外显信任以及机器人的感知能力。此外，在各种情况下，人们对机械机器人做出道德选择的信任明显高于人形机器人。

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Human-Computer Interaction 工程技术-计算机：控制论

CiteScore

12.20

自引率

3.80%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is a multidisciplinary journal defining and reporting on fundamental research in human-computer interaction. The goal of HCI is to be a journal of the highest quality that combines the best research and design work to extend our understanding of human-computer interaction. The target audience is the research community with an interest in both the scientific implications and practical relevance of how interactive computer systems should be designed and how they are actually used. HCI is concerned with the theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues of interaction science and system design as it affects the user.