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The Nature of Nudging

Apr 2018
1 Hour

Nudging refers to the ability of systems or robots (embodied AI) to overtly influence human users with or without their direct consent. When used by permission and with awareness around a robot or system's desired goals, nudging can greatly improve user's lives for anything from dieting to depression. However, when nudging is covert and utilized in aggressive advertising algorithms to incentivize purchase or influence behavior that may not be desired by users or their loved ones nudging poses an ethical threat and negative business implications.

Author Keywords: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Ethical Design, Ethics, nudge, nudging
IEEE Keywords: Advertising, Algorithm design and analysis, Artificial intelligence, Behavioral sciences, Business, Consumer behavior, Ethics, Human factors, Marketing management, Promotion - marketing, Psychology, Robots
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Level: Introductory
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Instructor

John Sullins

John Sullins III (Ph.D., Binghamton University (SUNY), 2002) is a full professor and Chair of philosophy at Sonoma State University. His specializations are: philosophy of technology, philosophical issues of artificial intelligence/robotics, cognitive science, philosophy of science, engineering ethi... Show More

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Instructor

Laurence Devillers

Prof. Laurence Y. Devillers is a full professor of Computer Sciences at Paris-Sorbonne University, France. She does her research at LIMSI-CNRS and heads the team on "Affective and Social Dimensions of Spoken Interactions" working on machine learning, affective computing, spoken dialog system, human-... Show More

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