{"id":23558,"date":"2016-03-15T15:01:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T22:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/do-humans-trust-robots-too-much"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:40:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:40:39","slug":"do-humans-trust-robots-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/do-humans-trust-robots-too-much","title":{"rendered":"Do humans trust robots too much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/frr6cVBQPXQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This study is bunk! And, here is the reason why: first, the robot was setup as a robot repeseanting as part of the facilities service where visitors\/ people where at and followed the \u201cfacilities\u201d robot as their escort in the building, much like you would do if I or someone else was wearing a building security jacket and badge who told you to follow us. So, this is very misleading study.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If you were in a burning building and a robot appeared to rescue you, would you follow it?<\/p>\n<p>A new study out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/\">Georgia Tech Research Institute<\/a> (GTRI) found that the answer is yes \u2014 even if it isn\u2019t in your best interest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/2120428\/why-human-like-robots-make-us-feel-uncomfortable\/\">Why human-like robots make us feel uncomfortable<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/2578861\/do-humans-trust-robots-too-much\/javascript: void;\">Story continues below<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/do-humans-trust-robots-too-much\">Continue reading \u201cDo humans trust robots too much?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study is bunk! And, here is the reason why: first, the robot was setup as a robot repeseanting as part of the facilities service where visitors\/ people where at and followed the \u201cfacilities\u201d robot as their escort in the building, much like you would do if I or someone else was wearing a building [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23558","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62391,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23558\/revisions\/62391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}