Breaking the Typecast? Moral Status and Trust in Robotic Moral Patients

Jaime Banks, Kevin Koban, Brad Haggadone

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Abstract

Given that perceived moral status is key to how people accept others, past scholarship has investigated the role of moral agency in human-robot interaction. However, little empirical work attends to dynamics of moral patiency - the extent to which robots are seen as deserving moral consideration. This investigation addresses two questions: (1) What is the relationship between perceived moral agency (PMA) and perceived moral patiency (PMP) when robots are positioned as moral patients and (2) (how) is PMP associated with trust in a robot? An online experiment explored these questions as people reacted to a robot being subjected to humans' (im)moral actions. Findings show that PMP is positively linked to PMA (against the moral typecasting hypothesis) and trust, robust to context/valence.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSocial Robots in Social Institutions - Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2022
EditorsRaul Hakli, Pekka Makela, Johanna Seibt
PublisherIOS Press BV
Pages315-324
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781643683744
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 9 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event5th Robophilosophy Conference: Social Robots in Social Institutions, Robophilosophy 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
Duration: Aug 16 2022Aug 19 2022

Publication series

NameFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume366
ISSN (Print)0922-6389
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8314

Conference

Conference5th Robophilosophy Conference: Social Robots in Social Institutions, Robophilosophy 2022
Country/TerritoryFinland
CityHelsinki
Period8/16/228/19/22

Keywords

  • moral judgment
  • moral typecasting hypothesis
  • social cognition
  • trust

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence

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