Anyone growing up with siblings will know that the excuse of “Jimmy told me to do it” will immediately be met by “If Jimmy told you to jump off a cliff, would you?” No, of course not… but if Jimmy were a colourful safety robot, I’d at least consider it.
That’s the slightly worrying conclusion from a new study Georgia Tech study, which discovered that humans treat safety robots as authority figures, even if their guidance flies in the face of common sense, and even if the robots have already proved themselves to be…
People trust safety robots over common sense, even when it puts them in danger
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