Humans tend to trust robots more when they speak our dialects, but there are exceptions, according to recent research.
A team of researchers in Germany recently published a study examining the relationship between language and trustworthiness when it comes to human views on talking robots.
The question at hand was whether humans would find a robot more trustworthy if it spoke in a standard language or if they’d prefer it speak in a local dialect.
A group of 120 German native speakers were recruited to find out. Study participants were shown videos of a small robot speaking in both a Berlin dialect and the more general standard German dialect. Respondents were then asked which seemed more trustworthy.
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Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/teaching-robots-artificial-intelligence-speak-local-dialects-could-make-easier-ai-exploit-humans