Humans' Assessment of Robots as Moral Regulators: Importance of Perceived Fairness and Legitimacy

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2110.04729
• Publication Date: 2021-01-01
• Authors: Boyoung Kim; Elizabeth Phillips
• Keywords: Punishment (psychology)

Previous research has shown that the fairness and legitimacy of a moral decision-maker are important for people's acceptance compliance with decision-maker. As technology rapidly advances, there have been increasing hopes concerns about building artificially intelligent entities designed to intervene against norm violations. However, it is unclear how people would perceive artificial regulators impose punishment on human wrongdoers. Grounded in theories psychology law, we predict perceived imposed by robot increase functioning as regulator, which turn, willingness accept comply robot's decisions. We close conceptual framework regulator successfully can regulate