This chapter starts with the observation that children are effortlessly treating a robot with the respect they treat real animals. It then introduces the reader to the research subject, chatbots, and our main research question, their impact on our concept of the social. With a notoriously opaque concept of AI, it is important to narrow down the inquiry early on. The chapter closes with an overview of the book.

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Introduction

  • Hendrik Kempt

摘要

This chapter starts with the observation that children are effortlessly treating a robot with the respect they treat real animals. It then introduces the reader to the research subject, chatbots, and our main research question, their impact on our concept of the social. With a notoriously opaque concept of AI, it is important to narrow down the inquiry early on. The chapter closes with an overview of the book.