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Losing Trust
John Timmer
– Jan 10, 2024 3:01 pm UTC
Enlarge / Why wouldn’t you trust this little guy? He’s so cute!
From a young age, kids tend to trust humans; however, as they grow, performance becomes more important.
Making mistakes is human, but it’s not limited to humans. Robots can also make mistakes. As we move into a future dominated by advanced AI, researchers from Singapore University of Technology and Design wanted to find out if kids would rather trust information from a robot or a human. They conducted an experiment with kids ages 3–5, showing them accurate and inaccurate information from both humans and robots.
It turned out that children trusted accurate humans and robots equally, regardless of age. However, younger children trusted an inaccurate human more than an inaccurate robot.
Just one human and one robot were displayed as “teachers” onscreen, with pre-recorded accurate and inaccurate videos. The research team predicted that as the children aged, they would rely more on the informant’s accuracy rather than whether the informant was a human or a robot. The study was recently published in Child Development.
During the experiment, children watched video clips of the human and robot looking at familiar and new objects on a table and giving them correct or incorrect names. Afterwards, the children had to rate whether the person or robot was good at identifying things.