Innocence over utilitarianism. Heightened moral standards for robots in rescue dilemmas
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/23:10480010
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2936" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2936</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2936" target="_blank" >10.1002/ejsp.2936</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Innocence over utilitarianism. Heightened moral standards for robots in rescue dilemmas
Original language description
Research in moral psychology has found that robots, more than humans, are expected to make utilitarian decisions. This expectation is found specifically when contrasting utilitarian action to deontological inaction. In a series of eight experiments (total N = 3752), we compared judgments about robots’ and humans’ decisions in a rescue dilemma with no possibility of deontological inaction. A robot’s decision to rescue an innocent victim of an accident was judged more positively than the decision to rescue two people culpable for the accident (Studies 1–2b). This pattern repeated in a large-scale web survey (Study 3, N = ∼19,000) and reversed when all victims were equally culpable/innocent (Study 5). Differences in judgments about humans’ and robots’ decisions were largest for norm-violating decisions. In sum, robots are not always expected to make utilitarian decisions, and their decisions are judged differently from those of humans based on other moral standards as well.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Journal of Social Psychology
ISSN
0046-2772
e-ISSN
1099-0992
Volume of the periodical
53
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
779-804
UT code for WoS article
000955799200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85150948051