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Can a Robot Lie? Exploring the Folk Concept of Lying as Applied to Artificial Agents

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2021
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Kneer, M. (2021). Can a Robot Lie? Exploring the Folk Concept of Lying as Applied to Artificial Agents. Cognitive Science, 45(10), e13032. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13032

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The potential capacity for robots to deceive has received considerable attention recently. Many papers explore the technical possibility for a robot to engage in deception for beneficial purposes (e.g., in education or health). In this short experimental paper, I focus on a more paradigmatic case: robot lying (lying being the textbook example of deception) for nonbeneficial purposes as judged from the human point of view. More precisely, I present an empirical experiment that investigates the following three questions: (a) Are ordinar

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45

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10

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e13032

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Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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English

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2021-10-01

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2021-12-30

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0364-0213

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139 since deposited on 2021-12-30
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110 since deposited on 2021-12-30
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Kneer, M. (2021). Can a Robot Lie? Exploring the Folk Concept of Lying as Applied to Artificial Agents. Cognitive Science, 45(10), e13032. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13032

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