Attributions of Intent and Moral Responsibility to AI agents

Datasets used to investigate how an AI agent's level of intentionality and socio-psychological features impacted observers' judgments of it when it transgressed (Study 1). Studies 2a-c investigated 1) the distinctiveness of the AI agent's mind from the mind of its programmers and 2) observers' perceptions of the AI agent's free will as possible explanations for why an AI agent that was embedded in a human social network (vs. not) appeared to receive more lenient judgments.