WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar: “Future of Work: Insights from Social Psychology and Organizational Behavior”（12/5）
Details
Today, robots and AI help generate creative content, man hotels, and even make hiring decisions in the workplace. But how humans feel about them remains complicated. In this talk, I will synthesize my past and ongoing work in an attempt to answer one question: Do humans enjoy interacting with robots and AI? The answer is that it depends — not so much on the types of robots or AI in question, but rather on what contexts we interact with them in. We generally prefer new technologies that serve us rather than those that work alongside us and are especially aversive to them in sacred and moral domains, such as religion and medicine. A final study reveals a human-AI interaction paradox: Although machines can commit wrongs and people do punish them, they cannot meaningfully receive punishment—and so justice can never feel complete.
Speaker
YAM, Kai Chi
Jardine Cycle & Carriage Professor, National University of Singapore
Date & Time
December 5, 2025 (Fri.) 0:10 – 1:10 pm
Venue
Room #1312, Building #11, Waseda Campus, Waseda University
Language
English
Prospected Audience
Undergraduate, Graduate, Researchers, Faculty members, General audience
Organizer
YANADORI, Yoshio, Professor, Faulty of Commerce
Co-Organizer
Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS)
