{"id":29430,"date":"2016-08-27T13:46:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T20:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/people-will-lie-to-robots-to-avoid-hurting-their-feelings"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:45:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:45:13","slug":"people-will-lie-to-robots-to-avoid-hurting-their-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/people-will-lie-to-robots-to-avoid-hurting-their-feelings","title":{"rendered":"People will lie to robots to avoid hurting their feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a test lab, Bert2 \u2014 a humanoid robot with three separate displays, allowing its eyes and mouth to express various emotions \u2014 performed in three different ways. One was silent and made zero mistakes, while a second was mute and programmed to make a single blunder (which it would then correct, quietly). A third was able to speak and accept simple \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d responses from the user. In a basic kitchen scenario, the vocal android would apologise for its mistakes \u2014 after dropping an egg, for instance \u2014 and give a heads-up when it was about to try a new technique.<\/p>\n

While the slowest, it was the robot that most people preferred.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s where it gets interesting. At the end of the exchange, the robot would ask for a job. Some participants were reluctant to say no \u2014 even if they preferred the silent, more efficient robot \u2014 because they thought it would upset the machine. \u201cIt felt appropriate to say no, but I felt really bad saying it,\u201d one of the test participants said. \u201cWhen the face was really sad, I felt even worse. I felt bad because the robot was trying to do its job.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In a test lab, Bert2 \u2014 a humanoid robot with three separate displays, allowing its eyes and mouth to express various emotions \u2014 performed in three different ways. One was silent and made zero mistakes, while a second was mute and programmed to make a single blunder (which it would then correct, quietly). A third [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29430","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60607,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29430\/revisions\/60607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}