{"id":210105,"date":"2025-03-30T13:23:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T18:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/study-shows-people-in-japan-treat-robots-and-ai-agents-more-respectfully-than-people-in-western-societies"},"modified":"2025-03-30T13:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T18:23:36","slug":"study-shows-people-in-japan-treat-robots-and-ai-agents-more-respectfully-than-people-in-western-societies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/study-shows-people-in-japan-treat-robots-and-ai-agents-more-respectfully-than-people-in-western-societies","title":{"rendered":"Study shows people in Japan treat robots and AI agents more respectfully than people in Western societies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Imagine an automated delivery vehicle rushing to complete a grocery drop-off while you are hurrying to meet friends for a long-awaited dinner. At a busy intersection, you both arrive at the same time. Do you slow down to give it space as it maneuvers around a corner? Or do you expect it to stop and let you pass, even if normal traffic etiquette suggests it should go first?<\/p>\n

\u201cAs self-driving technology<\/a> becomes a reality, these everyday encounters will define how we share the road with intelligent machines,\u201d says Dr. Jurgis Karpus from the Chair of Philosophy of Mind at LMU. He explains that the arrival of fully automated self-driving cars signals a shift from us merely using intelligent machines <\/a>\u2014like Google Translate or ChatGPT\u2014to actively interacting with them. The key difference? In busy traffic, our interests will not always align with those of the self-driving cars we encounter. We have to interact with them, even if we ourselves are not using them.<\/p>\n

In a study<\/a> published recently in the journal Scientific Reports<\/i>, researchers from LMU Munich and Waseda University in Tokyo found that people are far more likely to take advantage of cooperative artificial agents than of similarly cooperative fellow humans. \u201cAfter all, cutting off a robot in traffic doesn\u2019t hurt its feelings,\u201d says Karpus, lead author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imagine an automated delivery vehicle rushing to complete a grocery drop-off while you are hurrying to meet friends for a long-awaited dinner. At a busy intersection, you both arrive at the same time. Do you slow down to give it space as it maneuvers around a corner? Or do you expect it to stop and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}