Seltsame Entdeckung legt nahe, dass Kinder Robotern mehr vertrauen als Menschen

From the article

>From *The Iron Giant* to *Big Hero 6*, many of us will be familiar with tales of [kids befriending robots](https://www.sciencealert.com/4-year-year-olds-should-be-learning-about-robots-at-school-says-expert), which suggest generations of young children are more trusting of advice from machines than their own flesh and blood.

>An international research team has now found it’s not just in fiction. In a study involving 111 kids aged between 3 and 6 years old, the youngsters showed a preference for believing robots more and being more accepting when robots made mistakes.

>As kids we need to take in a huge amount of new information as we [learn about the world](https://www.sciencealert.com/kids-incredible-learning-may-all-be-down-to-1-chemical-in-the-brain), and filter out fact from fiction, and the researchers behind this new study wanted to see how information from different sources was received.

>“The question then becomes, how do children choose who to learn from when faced with conflicting testimonies?“ [write](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563224000979) the researchers in their published paper.

The danger isn’t that they *trust* AI/robots, it’s that their social acumen and skills have atrophied to the point where AI will become a not-so-imaginary friend that will always tell them what they want to hear.

AI provides humanity with the ultimate echo chamber, and one of the most dangerous things in existence is when someone (especially children and teens) hears nothing but „you’re right.“