The Robot's Heart: Tinkering with Humanity and Intimacy in Robot-Building

Katsuno, Hirofumi

doi:10.1080/10371397.2011.560259

Cited by 37 publications

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“…Trust fosters social commitments with machines through the perception of positive contributions to human life [88]. Indeed, some perspectives count the subjective experience of robot "heart" as emerging in the ostensible space between technological actualities and human possibilities [89]-that space may be the technical performance of human moral behaviors.…”

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Good Robots, Bad Robots: Morally Valenced Behavior Effects on Perceived Mind, Morality, and Trust

Banks

2020

Int J of Soc Robotics

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Both robots and humans can behave in ways that engender positive and negative evaluations of their behaviors and associated responsibility. However, extant scholarship on the link between agent evaluations and valenced behavior has generally treated moral behavior as a monolithic phenomenon and largely focused on moral deviations. In contrast, contemporary moral psychology increasingly considers moral judgments to unfold in relation to a number of moral foundations (care, fairness, authority, loyalty, purity, liberty) subject to both upholding and deviation. The present investigation seeks to discover whether social judgments of humans and robots emerge differently as a function of moral foundation-specific behaviors. This work is conducted in two studies: (1) an online survey in which agents deliver observed/mediated responses to moral dilemmas and (2) a smaller laboratory-based replication with agents delivering interactive/live responses. In each study, participants evaluate the goodness of and blame for six foundation-specific behaviors, and evaluate the agent for perceived mind, morality, and trust. Across these studies, results suggest that (a) moral judgments of behavior may be agent-agnostic, (b) all moral foundations may contribute to social evaluations of agents, and (c) physical presence and agent class contribute to the assignment of responsibility for behaviors. Findings are interpreted to suggest that bad behaviors denote bad actors, broadly, but machines bear a greater burden to behave morally, regardless of their credit- or blame-worthiness in a situation.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Good Robots, Bad Robots: Morally Valenced Behavior Effects on Perceived Mind, Morality, and Trust

Banks

2020

Int J of Soc Robotics

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“…ROBO-ONE is a robot fighting competition in Japan, where two small-size humanoid robots do battle in a fighting arena. The competition is open to public participation and is favored mainly among armature hobbyists [179], [180]. Participants may be young students, university researchers, hobbyists, or adults with engineering backgrounds and families.…”

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Educational Robotics: Platforms, Competitions and Expected Learning Outcomes

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“…This “robotic moment,” as Sherry Turkle calls it, finds people “willing to seriously consider robots … as potential friends, confidants, and even romantic partners” (9). As robots’ roles shift from manual and industrial labor to social and emotional companions (Gn 175), popular discourses generate visions in which robots are expected to fulfill intimate roles, such as caretakers, entertainers, lovers, and mediators in complex sociotechnical environments (Katsuno 96; Yonck xi). As one branch of Emotional Artificial Intelligence (AI), sex robots are much overhyped, yet culturally fascinating objects, frequently set up within popular discourses (fiction and nonfiction) as the inevitable end‐point, or an extreme case‐in‐point, of human‐robotic relations.…”

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confidence: 99%