ArticleIntegrative psychological & behavioral science2020
The Parasitic Nature of Social AI: Sharing Minds with the Mindless.
Article in Integrative psychological & behavioral science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Anthropomorphizing Technology: A Conceptual Review of Anthropomorphism Research and How it Relates to Children's Engagements with Digital Voice Assistants.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2022Article
- The performance of artificial intelligence-driven technologies in diagnosing mental disorders: an umbrella review.NPJ digital medicine · 2022Review
- Challenging the Neo-Anthropocentric Relational Approach to Robot Rights.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2021Article
- The foundations of a policy for the use of social robots in care.Technology in society · 2020Article
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Abstract
Can artificial intelligence (AI) develop the potential to be our partner, and will we be as sensitive to its social signals as we are to those of human beings? I examine both of these questions and how cultural psychology might add such questions to its research agenda. There are three areas in which I believe there is a need for both a better understanding and added perspective. First, I will present some important concepts and ideas from the world of AI that might be beneficial for pursuing research topics focused on AI within the cultural psychology research agenda. Second, there are some very interesting questions that must be answered with respect to central notions in cultural psychology as these are tested through human interactions with AI. Third, I claim that social robots are parasitic to deeply ingrained human social behaviour, in the sense that they exploit and feed upon processes and mechanisms that evolved for purposes that were originally completely alien to human-computer interactions.
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