What should a robot say, if a child asks it whether Santa is real?
Or, if you ask it ‘do I look good in this outfit’?
Cosmos journalist Petra Stock asks Georgia Tech human-robot interaction researcher Kantwon Rogers some tricky questions.
When Rogers isn’t singing with robots – which you can watch on TikTok and Twitter – he’s researching the consequences of robot deception.
We know humans lie, or bend the truth in certain situations. And when AI and robots are trained on human data, these technologies can often develop the art of deception.
Originally published by Cosmos as Should robots always tell the truth?
Petra Stock
Petra Stock is a journalist and engineer. She has previously worked in climate change, renewable energy, environmental planning and Aboriginal heritage policy.
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