Do You Mind? User Perceptions of Machine Consciousness

Scott, Ava Elizabeth ; Neumann, Daniel ; Niess, Jasmin und Woźniak, Paweł W. (2023): Do You Mind? User Perceptions of Machine Consciousness. CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Hamburg, Germany, 23. - 28. April 2023. Schmidt, Albrecht (Hrsg.): In: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 374 New York: Association for Computing Machinery.

Abstract

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 perceive consciousness in currently available interactive technologies. We show that many people already perceive a degree of consciousness in GPT-3, a voice chat bot, and a robot vacuum cleaner. Within participant responses we identified dynamic tensions between denial and speculation, thinking and feeling, interaction and experience, control and independence, and rigidity and spontaneity. These tensions can inform future research into perceptions of machine consciousness and the challenges it represents for HCI. With both empirical and theoretical contributions, this paper emphasises the importance of HCI in an era of machine consciousness, real, perceived or denied.

• Dokumententyp: Konferenzbeitrag (Paper)
• Fakultät: Mathematik, Informatik und Statistik > Informatik
• Themengebiete: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke > 004 Informatik
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-9421-5
• Ort: New York
• Sprache: Englisch