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Who or What is to Blame? Personality and Situational Attributions of Robot Behavior
Autumn Edwards, Chad Edwards
558 - 562
10.3233/FAIA200957
Research Article
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume 335: Culturally Sustainable Social Robotics
Abstract

The Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE) is the tendency for people to over-emphasize dispositional or personality-based explanations for others’ behavior while under-emphasizing situational explanations. Compared to people, current robots are less agentic and autonomous and more driven by programming, design, and humans-in-the-loop. People do nonetheless assign them agency and intentionality and blame. The purpose of the current experiment is to determine whether people commit the FAE in response to the behaviors of a social robot.

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