The Inquisitr - Tech

Two scientists, Sari Nijssen and Markus Paulus from Radboud University and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, carried out a new study about humans and robots. Some of their findings may be surprising to you, including how people reacted to a moral dilemma. While it may seem obvious that all humans should be okay with a robot being harmed or destroyed to save other human beings, that was not necessarily the case, as detailed by the Scientific Daily.

The study looked into “Under what circumstances and to what extent would adults be willing to sacrifice robots to save human lives?” The participants were presented with a moral dilemma, where they would have to put an individual at risk in order to save a group of “injured persons.” In some scenarios, the individual was a human being. In others, it was a robot that looked or acted human-like, or a robot that looked like a machine.

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