Abstract
Robots and other AI-enabled entities can present the opportunity for new and startling forms of sabotage, spoofing, and distress as well as imaginative manipulations designed to support wellbeing and smooth societal operations. The very projections of potentials for the proliferation of robots, autonomous vehicles, and other AI-enhanced entities in certain human arenas can be themselves “weaponized” by managers and government officials, in ways that present frightening prospects for people needing to build their lives and plan for their futures. This chapter outlines the notion of “creepiness” and the “uncanny valley” that play roles in how these technologies are being abused and their dark sides often intentionally utilized in opportunistic ways. It explores dimensions of robots and other AI entities that are often repressed, lampooned, or ignored.
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Oravec, J.A. (2022). Negative Dimensions of Human-Robot and Human-AI Interactions: Frightening Legacies, Emerging Dysfunctions, and Creepiness. In: Good Robot, Bad Robot. Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14013-6_3
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