Do You Mind? User Perceptions of Machine Consciousness
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 19, 2023 A. Scott, Daniel Neumann, J. Niess et al.
The prospect of machine consciousness cultivates controversy across media, academia, and industry. Assessing whether non-experts perceive technologies as conscious, and exploring the consequences of this perception, are yet unaddressed challenges in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). To address them, we surveyed 100 people, exploring their conceptualisations of consciousness and if and how they...