Abstract
As robots may take a greater part in our moral decision-making processes, whether people hold them accountable for moral harm becomes critical to explore. Blame and punishment signify moral accountability, often involving emotions. We quantitatively looked into people’s willingness to blame or punish an emotional vs. non-emotional robot that admits to its wrongdoing. Studies 1 and 2 (online video interaction) showed that people may punish a robot due to its lack of perceived emotional capacity than its perceived agency. Study 3 (in the lab) demonstrated that people were neither willing to blame nor punish the robot. Punishing non-emotional robots seems more likely than blaming them, yet punishment towards robots is more likely to arise online than offline. We reflect on if and why victimized humans (and those who care for them) may seek out retributive justice against robot scapegoats when there are no humans to hold accountable for moral harm.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
Subtitle of host publication | Making Waves, Combining Strengths |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
Pages | 1-11 |
Number of pages | 11 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-4503-8096-6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 6 May 2021 |
Event | 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2021 - Virtual, Online, Yokohama, Japan Duration: 8 May 2021 → 13 May 2021 https://chi2021.acm.org/ |
Conference
Conference | 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2021 |
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Abbreviated title | CHI 2021 |
Country/Territory | Japan |
City | Yokohama |
Period | 8/05/21 → 13/05/21 |
Other | "Making Waves, Combining Strengths" |
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Keywords
- Blame
- punishment
- morality
- responsibility gap
- retribution gap
- retributive justice
- robots
- human-robot interaction
- human-computer interaction
- Punishment
- Retribution gap
- Retributive justice
- Morality
- Human-robot interaction
- Responsibility gap
- Robots