Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
The research conducted a psychological experiment where both elder and younger people played with... more The research conducted a psychological experiment where both elder and younger people played with two types of animal robots (Paro and Genibo SD), to compare between their mental states before and after the play. The result based on the measurement of salivary amylase suggested that Paro influenced the decrease of stress only in the elder participants, and Genibo SD did not influence the participants' stress changes. CCS Concepts • Human-centered computing ➝ Human computer interaction (HCI) ➝ HCI design and evaluation methods ➝ User studies
To explore what types of tasks robots are expected to perform in domestic fields, and the gender ... more To explore what types of tasks robots are expected to perform in domestic fields, and the gender difference in these expectations, an online questionnaire survey was conducted in Japan, where traditional gender role assignments of breadwinning primarily by husbands and housework by wives are still prevalent (N = 400). The survey design consisted of items corresponding to 24 tasks to be performed by robots and 14 skills needed for robots to achieve the tasks. The results showed that women tended to expect robots to perform physical tasks and have human-like thinking capacity, in comparison with men. Moreover, there was a tendency for younger men to have lower expectations for domestic robots than younger women and older men. This paper discusses the implications from the perspective of gender difference in terms of the burden of housework.
2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2019
We developed a self-report measurement, Moral Concern for Robots Scale (MCRS), which measures whe... more We developed a self-report measurement, Moral Concern for Robots Scale (MCRS), which measures whether people believe that a robot has moral standing, deserves moral care, and merits protection. The results of an online survey (N = 200) confirmed the concurrent validity and predictive validity of the scale in the sense that the scale scores are successfully used to predict people's intentions for prosocial behaviors.
In scienti c research on emotions, phenomena on them has been considered to be mental ones in ind... more In scienti c research on emotions, phenomena on them has been considered to be mental ones in individuals. Even in the traditional sociology, emotions have actively not been dealt with because social phenomena and organizations have been analyzed based on the assumption that important decision should rationally be made. Thus, in uence of societies and cultures in emotions has not explicitly been dealt with. Recently, however, socilogy of emotions has augued sociality of emotions based on a concept \feeling rules" de ned as a set of socially shared guidelines that direct how we want to try to feel and not to feel emotions according to given situations. Based on this concept, several sociological analysis for social phenomena such as problems on emotional workers and a cultural trend in the modern societies have been done. In addition, a sociologist suggests that the concept of \double bind" can be explained from the viewpoint of feeling rules. This paper gives a re{interpre...
Although Japanese society has become aware of some types of robots, social acceptance of robots i... more Although Japanese society has become aware of some types of robots, social acceptance of robots is still not widespread. This study conducted an online questionnaire survey to investigate the relationships between experiences with and knowledge of vacuum, pet-type, and communication robots and acceptance of these robots, including the intention to use and trust. The results suggested that experiences with, knowledge of functions, and acceptance of the robots differed depending on the type of robot, and the influence of these factors on acceptance of the robots also differed depending on the robot types.
T is estimated that there are several differences between elder and younger people on cognitive a... more T is estimated that there are several differences between elder and younger people on cognitive and behavioral characteristics toward anthropomorphized artifacts such as robots and animation characters on screens. Robots are expected as one of assistive technologies in home for the elderly, in particular, in industrialized countries including Japan, due to the decrease in rates of childbirth and the increase in the elderly population [1]. On considering the designs of these robots in domestic fields, it is necessary to clarify differences between elder and younger people on cognitive and behavioral characteristics toward robots. However, there are only a few studies on direct comparison between elder and younger people focusing on robots. In an international study in several countries (Japan, United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy, and Korea), Shibata, Wada, and Tanie [2] developed and reported on participants' subjective evaluations of a seal-type robot called “Palo”. Their results sugg...
Ethical issues on robots need to be investigated based on international comparison because genera... more Ethical issues on robots need to be investigated based on international comparison because general publics’ conceptualizations of and feelings toward robots differ due to different situations with respect to mass media and historical influences of technologies. As a preliminary stage of this international comparison, a questionnaire survey based on openended questions was conducted in Japan, the USA, Germany and France (N = 100 from each countries). As a result, it was found that (1) people in Japan tended to react to ethical issues of robotics more seriously than those in the other countries, although those in Germany tended not to connect robotics to ethics, (2) people in France tended to specify unemployment as an ethical issue of robotics in comparison with the other countries, (3) people in Japan tended to argue the restriction of using and developing robots as a solution for the ethical problems, although those in France had the opposite trend.
Autopoiesis is a neologism, introduced by Maturana and Varela to designate the organization of a ... more Autopoiesis is a neologism, introduced by Maturana and Varela to designate the organization of a minimal living system[9]. Maturana produced the theory of autopoiesis based on his works on visual nervous systems, and then Varela developed his own system theory. Later, Luhmann applied autopoiesis to the theory of social systems[8]. Recently, this theory has been applied to not only sociology but also psychopathology. However, there are still few mathematical or computational models that represent autopoiesis itself because of its novelty and originality. In this paper, we introduce a recent situation for mathematical and computational descriptions of autopoiesis, and discuss its implications in system science. 1 Aspect of Autopoiesis 1.1 Properties of Autopoiesis Autopoiesis gives a framework in which a system exists as an organism through physical and chemical processes, based on the assumption that organisms are machinary. An autopoietic system is one that continuously produces the...
To investigate the influences of humans’ gender values in Human-Agent Interaction, the research c... more To investigate the influences of humans’ gender values in Human-Agent Interaction, the research conducted an experiment using a small-sized robot having no explicit gender cue (Yorisoi Ifbot) and a psychological scale measuring some types of gender values (the M-H-F scale). As a result, it was found: (1) participants’ gender attribution to the agent was related only with their active impression of the agent negatively, which had no correlation with their gender values, (2) although participants’ passive impression of the agent did not influence their gender attribution to the agent, it was related with their values of masculinity and feminity, which were strongly correlated each other, and (3) participants’ value of masculinity and gender attribution affected their behaviors such as their time spent for interaction and numbers of smiles during interaction with the agent.
2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2017
The paper summarizes the results of the questionnaire surveys conducted by the author's research ... more The paper summarizes the results of the questionnaire surveys conducted by the author's research group, along 1) attitudes toward robots, 2) assumptions and images about robots, 3) anxiety and expectation toward humanoid robots based on the concept of "Frankenstein Syndrome", and 4) ethical problems related to robots. Then, the paper discusses about the future direction of the research on cultural differences on social acceptance of robots.
Humans have devised machines to replace computation by individuals since ancient times: The abacu... more Humans have devised machines to replace computation by individuals since ancient times: The abacus predated the written Hindu–Arabic numeral system by centuries. We owe a quantum leap in the development of machines to help problem solve to the British mathematician Charles Babbage who built what he called the Difference Engine in the mid-19th century. But the Turing formula created in 1936 is the foundation for the modern computer; it produced printed symbols on paper tape that listed a series of logical instructions. Three decades later, Olivetti manufactured the first mass-marketed desktop computer (1964), and by 1981, IBM had developed the first personal computer. Computing machines have become more and more powerful, culminating recently in Google’s claim that it had achieved quantum supremacy in developing a system that can complete a task in 200 seconds that it would take the most powerful type of classical computer available 10 000 years to achieve. In short, we are in a peri...
We conducted an empirical study with older adults whose ages ranged from 60 to 73 and compared si... more We conducted an empirical study with older adults whose ages ranged from 60 to 73 and compared situations where they walked alone and with a robot. A parameter-based side by side walking model which uses motion, environmental and relative parameters derived from human-human side by side walking was used to navigate the robot autonomously. The model anticipates the motion of both robot and the human partner for motion prediction, uses subgoals on the environment and does not require the final goal of to be known. The participants' perceptions of ease of walking with/without the robot, enjoyment, and intention to walk with/without the robot were measured. Experimental results revealed that they gave significantly higher ratings to the intention for walking with the robot than walking alone, although no such significance was found in ease of walking with/without the robot or enjoyment. We analyzed the interview results and found that our participants wanted to walk with the robot again because they felt positive about at present and expected it to improve over time.
Miyanishi, M. and T. Nomura, Finite group scheme actions on the affine plane, Journal of Pure and... more Miyanishi, M. and T. Nomura, Finite group scheme actions on the affine plane, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 71 (1991) 2499264. An action of a finite group Z/pi2 for a prime p on the affine plane A2 in characteristic zero can be deformed to an action of the local group scheme ~~ on A2 in positive characteristic. Given an action of pp on A', one may ask conversely when this action is a deformation of an action of h/pi!. We shall show that the linearizability condition of the action of y is a good candidate for a necessary and sufficient condition.
To broadly explore the rationale behind more socially acceptable robot design and to investigate ... more To broadly explore the rationale behind more socially acceptable robot design and to investigate the psychological aspects of social acceptance of robotics, a cross-cultural research instrument, the Robot Assumptions Questionnaire (RAQ) was administered to the university students in Japan, Korea, and the United States, focusing on five factors relating to humanoid and animal-type robots: relative autonomy, social relationship with humans, emotional aspects, roles assumed, and images held. As a result, it was found that (1) Students in Japan, Korea, and the United States tend to assume that humanoid robots perform concrete tasks in society, and that animal-type robots play a pet- or toy-like role; (2) Japanese students tend to more strongly assume that humanoid robots have somewhat human characteristics and that their roles are related to social activities including communication, than do the Korean and the US students; (3) Korean students tend to have more negative attitudes toward ...
To validate a questionnaire for measuring people’s acceptance of humanoid robots in cross-cultura... more To validate a questionnaire for measuring people’s acceptance of humanoid robots in cross-cultural research (the Frankenstein Syndrome Questionnaire: FSQ), an online survey was conducted in both the UK and Japan including items on perceptions of the relation to the family and commitment to religions, and negative attitudes toward robots (the NARS). The results suggested that 1) the correlations between the FSQ subscale scores and NARS were sufficient, 2) the UK people felt more negative toward humanoid robots than did the Japanese people, 3) young UK people had more expectation for humanoid robots, 4) relationships between social acceptance of humanoid robots and negative attitudes toward robots in general were different between the nations and generations, and 5) there were no correlations between the FSQ subscale scores, and perception of the relation to the family and commitment to religions.
2018 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO), 2018
To clarify whether humans can extend moral care and consideration to robotic entities, a psycholo... more To clarify whether humans can extend moral care and consideration to robotic entities, a psychological experiment was conducted for twenty-five undergraduate and graduate students in Japan. The experiment consisted of two conditions on a robot's behavior: relational and non-relational. In the experiment participants interacted with the robot and then they were told that the robot was disposed. It was found that 1) the participants having higher expectation of rapport with the robot showed more moral expansiveness for the robot measured as degrees of reasoning about the robot as having mental states, a social other, and a moral other, in comparison with those having lower expectation, and 2) in the group of the participants having lower expectation of rapport with the robot, those facing to the robot with relational behaviors showed more degrees of reasoning about the robot as a social other in comparison with those facing the robot without these behaviors.
2015 International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture Computing)
To investigate the possibility of reproduction of gender stereotypes by robots, the research cond... more To investigate the possibility of reproduction of gender stereotypes by robots, the research conducted a psychological experiment in which participants had a shortterm interaction with a small-sized humanoid robot playing a role of guide. The results suggested that the female robot was preferred in this specific type of role in comparison with the male robot, and female persons preferred to the female robot in comparison with males.
RO-MAN 2004. 13th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE Catalog No.04TH8759)
In order to study short-term and long-term influence of communication robots in daily-life applic... more In order to study short-term and long-term influence of communication robots in daily-life applications, it is necessary to develop psychological scales measuring mental states of users of robots and social trends on them. This paper focuses on negative attitudes and anxiety toward robots, and shows results obtained through development of scales measuring them.
JPMJCR17A2, Japan, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientif... more JPMJCR17A2, Japan, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research no. 18H04121. Curmudgeon Corner Curmudgeon Corner is a short opinionated column on trends in technology, arts, science and society, commenting on issues of concern to the research community and wider society. Whilst the drive for superhuman intelligence promotes potential benefits to wider society, it also raises deep concerns of existential risk, thereby highlighting the need for an ongoing conversation between technology and society. At the core of Curmudgeon concern is the question: What is it to be human in the age of the AI machine?-Editor.
Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
The research conducted a psychological experiment where both elder and younger people played with... more The research conducted a psychological experiment where both elder and younger people played with two types of animal robots (Paro and Genibo SD), to compare between their mental states before and after the play. The result based on the measurement of salivary amylase suggested that Paro influenced the decrease of stress only in the elder participants, and Genibo SD did not influence the participants' stress changes. CCS Concepts • Human-centered computing ➝ Human computer interaction (HCI) ➝ HCI design and evaluation methods ➝ User studies
To explore what types of tasks robots are expected to perform in domestic fields, and the gender ... more To explore what types of tasks robots are expected to perform in domestic fields, and the gender difference in these expectations, an online questionnaire survey was conducted in Japan, where traditional gender role assignments of breadwinning primarily by husbands and housework by wives are still prevalent (N = 400). The survey design consisted of items corresponding to 24 tasks to be performed by robots and 14 skills needed for robots to achieve the tasks. The results showed that women tended to expect robots to perform physical tasks and have human-like thinking capacity, in comparison with men. Moreover, there was a tendency for younger men to have lower expectations for domestic robots than younger women and older men. This paper discusses the implications from the perspective of gender difference in terms of the burden of housework.
2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2019
We developed a self-report measurement, Moral Concern for Robots Scale (MCRS), which measures whe... more We developed a self-report measurement, Moral Concern for Robots Scale (MCRS), which measures whether people believe that a robot has moral standing, deserves moral care, and merits protection. The results of an online survey (N = 200) confirmed the concurrent validity and predictive validity of the scale in the sense that the scale scores are successfully used to predict people's intentions for prosocial behaviors.
In scienti c research on emotions, phenomena on them has been considered to be mental ones in ind... more In scienti c research on emotions, phenomena on them has been considered to be mental ones in individuals. Even in the traditional sociology, emotions have actively not been dealt with because social phenomena and organizations have been analyzed based on the assumption that important decision should rationally be made. Thus, in uence of societies and cultures in emotions has not explicitly been dealt with. Recently, however, socilogy of emotions has augued sociality of emotions based on a concept \feeling rules" de ned as a set of socially shared guidelines that direct how we want to try to feel and not to feel emotions according to given situations. Based on this concept, several sociological analysis for social phenomena such as problems on emotional workers and a cultural trend in the modern societies have been done. In addition, a sociologist suggests that the concept of \double bind" can be explained from the viewpoint of feeling rules. This paper gives a re{interpre...
Although Japanese society has become aware of some types of robots, social acceptance of robots i... more Although Japanese society has become aware of some types of robots, social acceptance of robots is still not widespread. This study conducted an online questionnaire survey to investigate the relationships between experiences with and knowledge of vacuum, pet-type, and communication robots and acceptance of these robots, including the intention to use and trust. The results suggested that experiences with, knowledge of functions, and acceptance of the robots differed depending on the type of robot, and the influence of these factors on acceptance of the robots also differed depending on the robot types.
T is estimated that there are several differences between elder and younger people on cognitive a... more T is estimated that there are several differences between elder and younger people on cognitive and behavioral characteristics toward anthropomorphized artifacts such as robots and animation characters on screens. Robots are expected as one of assistive technologies in home for the elderly, in particular, in industrialized countries including Japan, due to the decrease in rates of childbirth and the increase in the elderly population [1]. On considering the designs of these robots in domestic fields, it is necessary to clarify differences between elder and younger people on cognitive and behavioral characteristics toward robots. However, there are only a few studies on direct comparison between elder and younger people focusing on robots. In an international study in several countries (Japan, United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy, and Korea), Shibata, Wada, and Tanie [2] developed and reported on participants' subjective evaluations of a seal-type robot called “Palo”. Their results sugg...
Ethical issues on robots need to be investigated based on international comparison because genera... more Ethical issues on robots need to be investigated based on international comparison because general publics’ conceptualizations of and feelings toward robots differ due to different situations with respect to mass media and historical influences of technologies. As a preliminary stage of this international comparison, a questionnaire survey based on openended questions was conducted in Japan, the USA, Germany and France (N = 100 from each countries). As a result, it was found that (1) people in Japan tended to react to ethical issues of robotics more seriously than those in the other countries, although those in Germany tended not to connect robotics to ethics, (2) people in France tended to specify unemployment as an ethical issue of robotics in comparison with the other countries, (3) people in Japan tended to argue the restriction of using and developing robots as a solution for the ethical problems, although those in France had the opposite trend.
Autopoiesis is a neologism, introduced by Maturana and Varela to designate the organization of a ... more Autopoiesis is a neologism, introduced by Maturana and Varela to designate the organization of a minimal living system[9]. Maturana produced the theory of autopoiesis based on his works on visual nervous systems, and then Varela developed his own system theory. Later, Luhmann applied autopoiesis to the theory of social systems[8]. Recently, this theory has been applied to not only sociology but also psychopathology. However, there are still few mathematical or computational models that represent autopoiesis itself because of its novelty and originality. In this paper, we introduce a recent situation for mathematical and computational descriptions of autopoiesis, and discuss its implications in system science. 1 Aspect of Autopoiesis 1.1 Properties of Autopoiesis Autopoiesis gives a framework in which a system exists as an organism through physical and chemical processes, based on the assumption that organisms are machinary. An autopoietic system is one that continuously produces the...
To investigate the influences of humans’ gender values in Human-Agent Interaction, the research c... more To investigate the influences of humans’ gender values in Human-Agent Interaction, the research conducted an experiment using a small-sized robot having no explicit gender cue (Yorisoi Ifbot) and a psychological scale measuring some types of gender values (the M-H-F scale). As a result, it was found: (1) participants’ gender attribution to the agent was related only with their active impression of the agent negatively, which had no correlation with their gender values, (2) although participants’ passive impression of the agent did not influence their gender attribution to the agent, it was related with their values of masculinity and feminity, which were strongly correlated each other, and (3) participants’ value of masculinity and gender attribution affected their behaviors such as their time spent for interaction and numbers of smiles during interaction with the agent.
2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2017
The paper summarizes the results of the questionnaire surveys conducted by the author's research ... more The paper summarizes the results of the questionnaire surveys conducted by the author's research group, along 1) attitudes toward robots, 2) assumptions and images about robots, 3) anxiety and expectation toward humanoid robots based on the concept of "Frankenstein Syndrome", and 4) ethical problems related to robots. Then, the paper discusses about the future direction of the research on cultural differences on social acceptance of robots.
Humans have devised machines to replace computation by individuals since ancient times: The abacu... more Humans have devised machines to replace computation by individuals since ancient times: The abacus predated the written Hindu–Arabic numeral system by centuries. We owe a quantum leap in the development of machines to help problem solve to the British mathematician Charles Babbage who built what he called the Difference Engine in the mid-19th century. But the Turing formula created in 1936 is the foundation for the modern computer; it produced printed symbols on paper tape that listed a series of logical instructions. Three decades later, Olivetti manufactured the first mass-marketed desktop computer (1964), and by 1981, IBM had developed the first personal computer. Computing machines have become more and more powerful, culminating recently in Google’s claim that it had achieved quantum supremacy in developing a system that can complete a task in 200 seconds that it would take the most powerful type of classical computer available 10 000 years to achieve. In short, we are in a peri...
We conducted an empirical study with older adults whose ages ranged from 60 to 73 and compared si... more We conducted an empirical study with older adults whose ages ranged from 60 to 73 and compared situations where they walked alone and with a robot. A parameter-based side by side walking model which uses motion, environmental and relative parameters derived from human-human side by side walking was used to navigate the robot autonomously. The model anticipates the motion of both robot and the human partner for motion prediction, uses subgoals on the environment and does not require the final goal of to be known. The participants' perceptions of ease of walking with/without the robot, enjoyment, and intention to walk with/without the robot were measured. Experimental results revealed that they gave significantly higher ratings to the intention for walking with the robot than walking alone, although no such significance was found in ease of walking with/without the robot or enjoyment. We analyzed the interview results and found that our participants wanted to walk with the robot again because they felt positive about at present and expected it to improve over time.
Miyanishi, M. and T. Nomura, Finite group scheme actions on the affine plane, Journal of Pure and... more Miyanishi, M. and T. Nomura, Finite group scheme actions on the affine plane, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 71 (1991) 2499264. An action of a finite group Z/pi2 for a prime p on the affine plane A2 in characteristic zero can be deformed to an action of the local group scheme ~~ on A2 in positive characteristic. Given an action of pp on A', one may ask conversely when this action is a deformation of an action of h/pi!. We shall show that the linearizability condition of the action of y is a good candidate for a necessary and sufficient condition.
To broadly explore the rationale behind more socially acceptable robot design and to investigate ... more To broadly explore the rationale behind more socially acceptable robot design and to investigate the psychological aspects of social acceptance of robotics, a cross-cultural research instrument, the Robot Assumptions Questionnaire (RAQ) was administered to the university students in Japan, Korea, and the United States, focusing on five factors relating to humanoid and animal-type robots: relative autonomy, social relationship with humans, emotional aspects, roles assumed, and images held. As a result, it was found that (1) Students in Japan, Korea, and the United States tend to assume that humanoid robots perform concrete tasks in society, and that animal-type robots play a pet- or toy-like role; (2) Japanese students tend to more strongly assume that humanoid robots have somewhat human characteristics and that their roles are related to social activities including communication, than do the Korean and the US students; (3) Korean students tend to have more negative attitudes toward ...
To validate a questionnaire for measuring people’s acceptance of humanoid robots in cross-cultura... more To validate a questionnaire for measuring people’s acceptance of humanoid robots in cross-cultural research (the Frankenstein Syndrome Questionnaire: FSQ), an online survey was conducted in both the UK and Japan including items on perceptions of the relation to the family and commitment to religions, and negative attitudes toward robots (the NARS). The results suggested that 1) the correlations between the FSQ subscale scores and NARS were sufficient, 2) the UK people felt more negative toward humanoid robots than did the Japanese people, 3) young UK people had more expectation for humanoid robots, 4) relationships between social acceptance of humanoid robots and negative attitudes toward robots in general were different between the nations and generations, and 5) there were no correlations between the FSQ subscale scores, and perception of the relation to the family and commitment to religions.
2018 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO), 2018
To clarify whether humans can extend moral care and consideration to robotic entities, a psycholo... more To clarify whether humans can extend moral care and consideration to robotic entities, a psychological experiment was conducted for twenty-five undergraduate and graduate students in Japan. The experiment consisted of two conditions on a robot's behavior: relational and non-relational. In the experiment participants interacted with the robot and then they were told that the robot was disposed. It was found that 1) the participants having higher expectation of rapport with the robot showed more moral expansiveness for the robot measured as degrees of reasoning about the robot as having mental states, a social other, and a moral other, in comparison with those having lower expectation, and 2) in the group of the participants having lower expectation of rapport with the robot, those facing to the robot with relational behaviors showed more degrees of reasoning about the robot as a social other in comparison with those facing the robot without these behaviors.
2015 International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture Computing)
To investigate the possibility of reproduction of gender stereotypes by robots, the research cond... more To investigate the possibility of reproduction of gender stereotypes by robots, the research conducted a psychological experiment in which participants had a shortterm interaction with a small-sized humanoid robot playing a role of guide. The results suggested that the female robot was preferred in this specific type of role in comparison with the male robot, and female persons preferred to the female robot in comparison with males.
RO-MAN 2004. 13th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE Catalog No.04TH8759)
In order to study short-term and long-term influence of communication robots in daily-life applic... more In order to study short-term and long-term influence of communication robots in daily-life applications, it is necessary to develop psychological scales measuring mental states of users of robots and social trends on them. This paper focuses on negative attitudes and anxiety toward robots, and shows results obtained through development of scales measuring them.
JPMJCR17A2, Japan, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientif... more JPMJCR17A2, Japan, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research no. 18H04121. Curmudgeon Corner Curmudgeon Corner is a short opinionated column on trends in technology, arts, science and society, commenting on issues of concern to the research community and wider society. Whilst the drive for superhuman intelligence promotes potential benefits to wider society, it also raises deep concerns of existential risk, thereby highlighting the need for an ongoing conversation between technology and society. At the core of Curmudgeon concern is the question: What is it to be human in the age of the AI machine?-Editor.
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