For the second time, people in Philadelphia have beaten up a robot. Last month, an Uber Eats delivery robot was kicked over and vandalized. About a decade ago, Hitch Bot was also beaten up in the City of Brotherly Love.
Daryl Cameron, associate professor of psychology at Penn State and director of SSRI's Consortium on Moral Decision-Making, studies how humans interact with, and feel emotion towards artificial intelligence like robots and Large Language Models (LLMs). In this video he explains these interactions show concerns that a lot of people have about AI taking over jobs. But the way people interact with robots and AI also says something about the empathy they have for society.
Cameron was also featured on The Last Show Podcast, where he explores whether true empathy is possible between humans and AI.