You, Robot

Fiala, Brian; Arico, Adam; Nichols, Shaun

doi:10.4324/9780203122884-3

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“…We have offered evidence that it is possible to manipulate explicit ascriptions of consciousness by explicitly manipulating factors known to affect attributions regarding agency. The most direct upshot of this result is that it supports work by Adam Arico, Brian Fiala, and Shaun Nichols (Arico et al, 2011;Fiala et al, 2014) against recent criticisms (e.g., Sytsma, 2014). Additionally, it extends this work by indicating a certain structure among elements in folk thinking about agency.…”

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confidence: 76%

“…Arico and colleagues have explored explicit attributions of consciousness in a follow-up study by Fiala et al (2014) . In that study, subjects were presented with vignettes that contrasted a functionally simple robot with a human being and asked them (among other things) whether the robot or the human “saw green.” Fiala et al’s aim was to determine whether explicit processes could influence the ascriptions of consciousness.…”

Section: Agency Impacts Consciousness Attributionsmentioning

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Determinism and attributions of consciousness

Björnsson

Shepherd

2020

Philosophical Psychology

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The studies we report indicate that it is possible to manipulate explicit ascriptions of consciousness by manipulating whether an agent's behavior is deterministically caused. In addition, we explore whether this impact of determinism on consciousness is direct, or whether it is mediated by notions linked to agencynotions like moral responsibility, free will, deliberate choice, and sensitivity to moral reasons. We provide evidence of mediation. This result extends work on attributions of consciousness and their connection to attributions of agency by Adam Arico, Brian Fiala, and Shaun Nichols and supports it against recent criticisms.

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Section: Agency Impacts Consciousness Attributionsmentioning

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Determinism and attributions of consciousness

Björnsson

Shepherd

2020

Philosophical Psychology

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“…Recent efforts have been made toward studying mental state ascription to robots empirically. However, most research in this area has focused on understanding what kinds of mental states people ascribe to robots (e.g., de Graaf and Malle, 2019 ; Fiala et al., 2014 ; Gray et al., 2007 ; Malle, 2019 ; Petrovych et al., 2018 ; Thellman et al., 2017 ; Waytz et al., 2014 ; Zhao et al., 2016 ). That means, there is so far hardly any research addressing the call for research made by Lee et al.…”

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Do You See what I See? Tracking the Perceptual Beliefs of Robots

Thellman

Ziemke

2020

iScience

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Summary Keeping track of others' perceptual beliefs—what they perceive and know about the current situation—is imperative in many social contexts. In a series of experiments, we set out to investigate people's ability to keep track of what robots know or believe about objects and events in the environment. To this end, we subjected 155 experimental participants to an anticipatory-looking false-belief task where they had to reason about a robot's perceptual capability in order to predict its behavior. We conclude that (1) it is difficult for people to track the perceptual beliefs of a robot whose perceptual capability potentially differs significantly from human perception, (2) people can gradually “tune in” to the unique perceptual capabilities of a robot over time by observing it interact with the environment, and (3) providing people with verbal information about a robot's perceptual capability might not significantly help them predict its behavior.

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“…This method has its drawbacks, in that it requires introspection on the part of the participants as well as a moderate level of knowledge concerning Dennett's terminology. Introspection, though, is a notoriously unreliable research tool (Nisbett & Wilson, 1977;Fiala, Arico & Nichols, 2014). Other studies make use of unstructured interviews, and subject the respondents' answers to analysis (Sirkin et al, 2015).…”

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Intentional mindset towards robots – open questions and methodological challenges

Schellen¹,

Wykowska²

2019

Preprint

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Natural and effective interaction with humanoid robots should involve social cognitive mechanisms of the human brain that normally facilitate social interaction between humans. Recent research has indicated that the presence and efficiency of these mechanisms in human-robot interaction (HRI) might be contingent on the adoption of a set of attitudes, mindsets and beliefs concerning the robot’s inner machinery. Current research is investigating the factors that influence these mindsets, and how they affect HRI. This review focuses on a specific mindset, namely the “intentional mindset” in which intentionality is attributed to another agent. More specifically, we focus on the concept of adopting the intentional stance towards robots, i.e., the tendency to predict and explain the robots’ behavior with reference to mental states. We discuss the relationship between adoption of intentional stance and lower-level mechanisms of social cognition, and we provide a critical evaluation of research methods currently employed in this field, highlighting common pitfalls in the measurement of attitudes and mindsets.

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You, Robot

Cited by 29 publications

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Determinism and attributions of consciousness

Determinism and attributions of consciousness

Do You See what I See? Tracking the Perceptual Beliefs of Robots

Intentional mindset towards robots – open questions and methodological challenges

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