More than 40 years ago, Japanese roboticist proposed the “uncanny valley” hypothesis,
which predicted a nonlinear relation between robots' perceived human likeness and their …

As we move headlong through the twenty-first century and into the future, achievements in
artificial intelligence (AI) continue at an exponential speed. AlphaGo, AlphaGo Zero, and …

The uncanny valley hypothesis by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori posits a nonlinear
relation between human replicas' human likeness and the emotional responses they elicit. In …

Social robots are increasingly used in different areas of society such as public health, elderly
care, education, and commerce. They have also been successfully employed in autism …

The “uncanny valley” hypothesis (Mori 1970/2005) states that a near-human looking entity
can engender negative feelings in an observer. I analyze the phenomenology of the …

Before Humanity takes up the question of the post-in the posthuman from the position of
ancestrality. Speculating about who or what comes after the human inevitably throws us …

Many AIs are created to solve problems that humans alone cannot solve. AIs designed to
work in human teams should include requirements necessary to work within a team. This …

Trust is an ambiguous concept. Most of this ambiguity is produced by the fact that trust (such
as, eg, love) is a naïve concept: every human being possesses a rough and pre-theoretical …

Over the years computer graphics have been improved to be more and more realistic and
developed special techniques to resemble various visual surface characteristics. Rendering …

Authors working hypothesis is that the notion of dehumanization may constitute an
illuminating conceptual bridge connecting the emotion of disgust, broadly construed, to the …