Army Researcher Promotes Cooperation between Humans, Autonomous Machines (IMAGE)

U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Army Researcher Promotes Cooperation between Humans, Autonomous Machines

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Research shows people readily engage in social categorization distinguishing humans from machines, which leads to reduced cooperation with machines. A simple cultural cue-the ethnicity of the machine's virtual face-mitigated this bias for participants from two distinct cultures United States (top images) and Japan (bottom images) show corresponding emotion expressions.

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(U.S. Army illustration by Dr. Celso M. de Melo)

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