Configurable Anthropomorphic Robot to Assess Threat-modulation of Trust in Machine Agents
Abstract
An emerging corpus of research indicates that threatening situations lead individuals toconceptualize members of their coalitions as more mentally human. Relatedly, research alsoshows that machine agents are intuitively anthropomorphized as possessing human mentalcharacteristics, and are increasingly enmeshed as quasi-members of military teams. Anecdotally,for example, soldiers have been known to name and even mourn the loss of explosive ordnancedisposal robots, and recent neuroscientific research confirms that machine agents areconceptualized using some of the same neural mechanisms as those employed in social reasoningabout the mental states of other human beings.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Apr 09, 2018
- Source ID
- FA95501810065
Entities
People
- Christopher Holbrook
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- United States Air Force
- University of California, Los Angeles