Xu Weifeng, Li Chao, Miao Xiaoyan, Liu Li
Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, 19 Xinjiekouwai Street, Beijing, 100875, China.
BMC Psychol. 2025 Apr 14;13(1):380. doi: 10.1186/s40359-025-02673-5.
Past work has primarily focused on how the perception of robotic agency influences human-robot interaction and the evaluation of robotic progress, while overlooking its impact on reconsidering what it means to be human. Drawing on social identity theory, we proposed that perceived robotic agency diminishes the importance of agency in humanity. We conducted three experiments (N = 920) to test this assumption. Experiments 1 and 2 manipulated perceived robotic agency. Experiments 2 and 3 separately measured and manipulated distinctiveness threat to investigate the underlying mechanism. Results revealed that high (vs. low) perceived robotic agency reduced ratings of the essentiality of agency in defining humanity (Experiments 1 and 2); distinctiveness threat accounted for this effect (Experiments 2 and 3). The findings contribute to a novel understanding of how ascriptions of humanity are evolving in the AI era.
过去的研究主要集中在对机器人能动性的认知如何影响人机交互以及对机器人进步的评估上，却忽视了其对重新思考人性意义的影响。基于社会认同理论，我们提出，感知到的机器人能动性会降低能动性在人性中的重要性。我们进行了三项实验（N = 920）来检验这一假设。实验1和实验2操纵了感知到的机器人能动性。实验2和实验3分别测量并操纵了独特性威胁，以探究其潜在机制。结果显示，高（相对于低）感知到的机器人能动性降低了能动性在定义人性中的本质性评分（实验1和实验2）；独特性威胁解释了这一效应（实验2和实验3）。这些发现有助于对人工智能时代人性归属如何演变产生新的理解。
