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I was reading The Hacker's Mind by Bruce Schneier and he relays an experiment where a clearly imperfect navigation robot gives wrong directions to people repeat
by r2_pilot 2y ago
I was reading The Hacker's Mind by Bruce Schneier and he relays an experiment where a clearly imperfect navigation robot gives wrong directions to people repeatedly. Then a simulated emergency occurs, and the robot changes to saying "follow me to the exit" basically and points to a dark room instead of the routes the people took just minutes before, and despite having experienced the robot doesn't navigate well, people tend to follow the robot's instructions.
- LeonB 2y agoWelp. I’m not even slightly surprised, but i fact checked this anyway. Here’s the article — and it’s even more alarming when you read the details. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/04/people_trust_ro.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/04/people_trust_... Thanks for the interesting example / terrifying insight into human nature.