MM will hold a Public Lecture on the topic “Interacting with AI and Robots as Employees, Customers, Believers, Patients, and Students” on 13 December 2023.
Abstract:
Today, robots and AI help generate creative content, man hotels, and even make hiring decisions in the workplace. But how humans feel about them remains complicated. In this talk, I will synthesize my past and ongoing work in an attempt to answer one question: do humans enjoy interacting with robots and AI? The answer is that it depends — not so much on the types of robots or AI in question, but rather on what contexts we interact with them in. We generally prefer new technologies that serve us rather than those that work alongside us and are especially aversive to them in sacred and moral domains, such as religion and medicine. Technological affinity and cultural differences gen erally explain small variances, whereas generational differences and a lack of exposure explain larger ones.
Date* : 13 December 2023 (Wednesday)
Time* : 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. (Public Lecture)
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. (Q&A Session)
*Hong Kong Time
Venue : AG710, PolyU
Please register through the registration form https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=YPc3j4exgUm4L-Xcb1vPRLiQGU2EnwNOtDVtbUjEEDNUMEZQQ1pTUTFRTktWWDJMNEdFRVZHV1pWNy4u on or before 11 Dec 2023 (Mon).
