Children conform, adults resist: A robot group induced peer pressure on normative social conformity
Children conform, adults resist: A robot group induced peer pressure on normative social conformity
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儿童顺从，成人抵制：机器人群体对规范社会顺从造成同伴压力
作者：
Anna;Robin Read;Dries Trippas;Tony Belpaeme
孩子们越来越屈服于一群机器人施加的社会压力；然而，成年人拒绝受到我们机器人的影响。众所周知，人们会改变自己的行为和决定，以顺应他人，即使是因为明显不正确的事实。由于人工智能和机器人技术的最新发展，机器人越来越多地出现在人类环境中，在那里，它们形成了一种新的社交存在。目前尚不清楚这些社交机器人能否以及在多大程度上能够施加类似于人类同行的压力。这项研究使用了Asch范式，它展示了参与者在执行视觉判断任务时是如何顺从他人的。我们首先重复了这一发现，即成年人受到同龄人的影响，但他们抵抗来自一群小型人形机器人的社会压力。接下来，我们对7至9岁的儿童重复了这项研究，结果表明，孩子们会遵守机器人的要求。这增加了在年轻和弱势群体中使用社交机器人的机会和担忧；虽然遵守规则可能是有益的，但不能忽视误用的可能性和错误表现的潜在影响。
Children increasingly yielded to social pressure exerted by a group of robots; however, adults resisted being influenced by our robots. People are known to change their behavior and decisions to conform to others, even for obviously incorrect facts. Because of recent developments in artificial intelligence and robotics, robots are increasingly found in human environments, and there, they form a novel social presence. It is as yet unclear whether and to what extent these social robots are able to exert pressure similar to human peers. This study used the Asch paradigm, which shows how participants conform to others while performing a visual judgment task. We first replicated the finding that adults are influenced by their peers but showed that they resist social pressure from a group of small humanoid robots. Next, we repeated the study with 7- to 9-year-old children and showed that children conform to the robots. This raises opportunities as well as concerns for the use of social robots with young and vulnerable cross-sections of society; although conforming can be beneficial, the potential for misuse and the potential impact of erroneous performance cannot be ignored.