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What is it like to encounter an autonomous artificial agent?

  • 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

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Author:Karsten WeberORCiDGND
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-013-0453-3
Parent Title (English):AI & Society
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2013
Release Date:2020/06/30
Tag:Autonomous artificial agent; Moral responsibility; Turing test; Uncanny valley
Volume:28
Issue:4
First Page:483
Last Page:489
Institutes:Kompetenzzentren der OTH Regensburg / Institut für Sozialforschung und Technikfolgenabschätzung (IST)
Fakultät Informatik und Mathematik / Labor für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Angewandte Ethik (LaTe)
research focus:Digitalisierung