Social RoboticsPeople accept some robot lies but reject others, survey study finds
A white lie to spare feelings was tolerated; hidden recording was not.
Andres Rosero and colleagues at George Mason University surveyed 498 people about three kinds of robot deception, published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI. A majority accepted a care robot telling a woman with Alzheimer's a comforting untruth about her husband, but few approved of a housekeeping robot secretly filming or a factory robot pretending to feel pain. Most respondents blamed owners or programmers rather than the robot for the hidden recording. The findings inform ethical design rules for social robots in care and the home.
Source: Phys.org
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