We studied morality judgments on the behavior of human and artificial systems, by comparing, in a between-subjects experiment (n=381), both the perception of the seriousness of an action causing harm to either some persons or some robots committed by either a person or a robot, and the attribution of the appropriated punishment for that action. The results showed a significant and predictable effect of the type of victim: The action was considered more a serious offence, and deemed worthy of more severe punishment, if the victims were humans than if them were robots. A significant interaction effect between type of agent and type of victim was also found on the punishment judgements: For human victims, a human agent was punished more severely than a robot, while for robot victims, a robot agent was attributed a more severe punishment than a human one. The results are discussed in the light of the theories linking moral judgments to mind perception. c 2021 Association for Computing Machinery.

Guidi, S., Marchigiani, E., Roncato, S., Parlangeli, O. (2021). Human beings and robots: Are there any differences in the attribution of punishments for the same crimes?. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp.1-6). Association for Computing Machinery [10.1145/3452853.3452864].

Human beings and robots: Are there any differences in the attribution of punishments for the same crimes?

Guidi S.
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Marchigiani E.;Parlangeli O.
2021-01-01

Abstract

We studied morality judgments on the behavior of human and artificial systems, by comparing, in a between-subjects experiment (n=381), both the perception of the seriousness of an action causing harm to either some persons or some robots committed by either a person or a robot, and the attribution of the appropriated punishment for that action. The results showed a significant and predictable effect of the type of victim: The action was considered more a serious offence, and deemed worthy of more severe punishment, if the victims were humans than if them were robots. A significant interaction effect between type of agent and type of victim was also found on the punishment judgements: For human victims, a human agent was punished more severely than a robot, while for robot victims, a robot agent was attributed a more severe punishment than a human one. The results are discussed in the light of the theories linking moral judgments to mind perception. c 2021 Association for Computing Machinery.
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Guidi, S., Marchigiani, E., Roncato, S., Parlangeli, O. (2021). Human beings and robots: Are there any differences in the attribution of punishments for the same crimes?. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp.1-6). Association for Computing Machinery [10.1145/3452853.3452864].
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