The findings raise safety concerns for workplaces that engage in dangerous and repetitive tasks.
Everyone knows the colleague or classmate who’s taken the easy route on an assignment knowing someone else will swoop in to save the day. New research suggests that the same phenomena, which psychologists call “social loafing,” may also apply when a teammate is made of software and hunks of metal.
It turns out that both the participants who thought they were working with Panda and those working independently spent about the same time inspecting the boards. They also both self-reported similar feelings of responsibility for the task. But the proof was in the performance. The workers supposedly tasked with checking the robot’s first pass actually spotted fewer errors than those working independently.
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