TY - JOUR A1 - Weber, Karsten T1 - What is it like to encounter an autonomous artificial agent? JF - AI & Society N2 - Following up on Thomas Nagel’s paper “What is it like to be a bat?” and Alan Turing’s essay “Computing machinery and intelligence,” it shall be claimed that a successful interaction of human beings and autonomous artificial agents depends more on which characteristics human beings ascribe to the agent than on whether the agent really has those characteristics. It will be argued that Masahiro Mori’s concept of the “uncanny valley” as well as evidence from several empirical studies supports that assertion. Finally, some tentative conclusions concerning moral implications of the arguments presented here shall be drawn KW - Autonomous artificial agent KW - Turing test KW - Uncanny valley KW - Moral responsibility Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-013-0453-3 VL - 28 IS - 4 SP - 483 EP - 489 ER -