Human-like robots create (too much) empathy
If robots are designed to resemble sentient beings, many people find it easier to work with them. However, a study has recently shed light on the dark side of this: If the robots evoke too much empathy, it may even have dangerous consequences for human life.
23 Feb 2019 David SchahinianShare
As the German New Wave band Ideal once sang, “Das ist gefährlich, lebensgefährlich, zu viel Gefühl” (“It’s dangerous, potentially fatal, feeling too much”). At least that seems to be how scientists at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, and in Munich see robots whose design mimics humans. The researchers conducted a trial to find out whether subjects would put an individual in mortal danger to save a group of injured people. This individual was sometimes a human, sometimes a human-like robot, and sometimes obviously just a machine. The
The fact that robots can spark emotions and empathy from humans had previously been demonstrated in a
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