[alicebot-aiethics] Botsmut

[BARKER Timothy]

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I don't know if ppl treat bots totally as they would humans - it would
make for an interesting study, a kind of extension of the Turing Test
where one is measuring 'social intelligence', e.g. answering the
question:"can a machine feel" ? ;)
 
The classic text aligned to this is Reeves and Nass (1996), "The Media
Equation: how people treat computers, television, and new media like
real people and places", ISBN: 1-57586-053-8 Its a very good read.
 
Let us know of your website please !
 
Cheers

Tim

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	From: KAR1273@aol.com [mailto:KAR1273@aol.com] 
	Sent: Mon 23/02/2004 14:55 
	To: alicebot-aiethics@list.alicebot.org 
	Cc: 
	Subject: Re: [alicebot-aiethics] Botsmut
	
	
	Yes, I agree that bots must be capable of dealing with a wide
and unpredictable range of human attitudes. I suppose I was shocked
because my bot had only been presented for testing to a few friends; I
would have expected rudeness from the public at large but began to
wonder if someone I knew was perhaps  harboring a dark, destructive side
that had not emerged during regular virtual conversations. Can the way a
person treats bots be indicative of a general predisposition toward
others or is this just simplistic? I remember my sister experiencing a
very sophisticated bot that chatted and had a human form in her place of
work that had been positioned in the lobby to test responses; she spoke
to the bot on lunch break, and then when leaving at the end of the day,
she saw that the bot was being unassembled and that its head was lying
on the floor. She said that she felt a sort of affinity for the poor
thing and said to the botmaster "Make sure you keep him warm." She is
the sort who intervenes to care for sick and injured animals that she
finds...
	A society is judged on how humane it is to its weakest and most
powerless members; should persons be judged on how they treat bots when
no one is there to monitor?
	j/k...(sort ) but I can't help thinking of the fate of entropic
bots in AI. [the movie] where 'institutionalized' botslaughter became a
viable form of family entertainment.
	 
	Bots have to evolve constructive defenses.
	 
	Thanks for the input...I am working on chatbots at my website
which aren't terribly sophisticated yet, but I hope to incorporate their
artificial intelligences into these wired 'bottish' forms that I have
been 'weaving'  that are based on human proportions.
	 
	 
	Karen

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