IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/tefoso/v189y2023ics0040162522007703.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Rage against robots: Emotional and motivational dimensions of anti-robot attacks, robot sabotage, and robot bullying

Author

Listed:
  • Oravec, Jo Ann

Abstract

An assortment of kinds of attacks and aggressive behaviors toward artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced robots has recently emerged. This paper explores questions of how the human emotions and motivations involved in attacks of robots are being framed as well as how the incidents are presented in social media and traditional broadcast channels. The paper analyzes how robots are construed as the “other” in many contexts, often akin to the perspectives of “machine wreckers” of past centuries. It argues that focuses on the emotions and motivations of robot attackers can be useful in mitigating anti-robot activities. “Hate crime” or “hate incident” characterizations of some anti-robot efforts should be utilized in discourse as well as some future legislative efforts. Hate crime framings can aid in identifying generalized antagonism and antipathy toward robots as autonomous and intelligent entities in the context of antirobot attacks. Human self-defense may become a critical issue in some anti-robot attacks, especially when apparently malfunctioning robots are involved. Attacks of robots present individuals with vicarious opportunities to participate in anti-robot activity and also potentially elicit other aggressive, copycat actions as videos and narrative accounts are shared via social media as well as personal networks.

Suggested Citation

  • Oravec, Jo Ann, 2023. "Rage against robots: Emotional and motivational dimensions of anti-robot attacks, robot sabotage, and robot bullying," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 189(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:tefoso:v:189:y:2023:i:c:s0040162522007703
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122249
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162522007703
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122249?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Ranabhat, Bikash & Clements, Joseph & Gatlin, Jacob & Hsiao, Kuang-Ting & Yampolskiy, Mark, 2019. "Optimal sabotage attack on composite material parts," International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Elsevier, vol. 26(C).
    2. Karsten Paerregaard, 2019. "VIEWPOINT: Grasping the Fear: How Xenophobia Intersects with Climatephobia and Robotphobia and how their Co-production Creates Feelings of Abandonment, Self-pity and Destruction," Migration Letters, Transnational Press London, UK, vol. 16(4), pages 635-640, October.
    3. Robert J. Miller, 1983. "The Human: Alien in the Robotic Environment?," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 470(1), pages 11-15, November.
    4. Oravec, Jo Ann, 2017. "Kill switches, remote deletion, and intelligent agents: Framing everyday household cybersecurity in the internet of things," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 189-198.
    5. Karsten Paerregaard, 2019. "VIEWPOINT: Grasping the Fear: How Xenophobia Intersects with Climatephobia and Robotphobia and how their Co-production Creates Feelings of Abandonment, Self-pity and Destruction," Migration Letters, Migration Letters, vol. 16(4), pages 647-652, October.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Dang, Ngoc Bich & Bertrandias, Laurent, 2023. "Social robots as healing aids: How and why powerlessness influences the intention to adopt social robots," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 196(C).

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Cheryl, Barr-Kumarakulasinghe & Ng, Boon-Kwee & Wong, Chan-Yuan, 2021. "Governing the progress of internet-of-things: Ambivalence in the quest of technology exploitation and user rights protection," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 64(C).
    2. Pal, Debajyoti & Zhang, Xiangmin & Siyal, Saeed, 2021. "Prohibitive factors to the acceptance of Internet of Things (IoT) technology in society: A smart-home context using a resistive modelling approach," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 66(C).
    3. Aggarwal, Nitin & Albert, Leslie J. & Hill, Timothy R. & Rodan, Simon A., 2020. "Risk knowledge and concern as influences of purchase intention for internet of things devices," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 62(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:tefoso:v:189:y:2023:i:c:s0040162522007703. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00401625 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.