Wenn Menschen mit Robotern zusammenleben : Zur Entstehung einer neuen Interaktionskultur
Nicht allein Globalisierung, sondern auch der Prozess der Robotisierung ändert unsere Gesellschaften. Empirische Studien belegen, dass aus wiederholten Kontakten von Mensch und Maschine neue Formen der hybriden Interaktion und Kooperation entstehen. Sie erfordern, so der Autor, neue Zugänge, wie wir Andersartigkeit verstehen und sie in unseren Alltag integrieren können.
Globalization has generated
increased societal heterogeneity and
awakened interest of a new kind in
social cohesion and integration. But
globalization is not the only contemporary
process to give rise to societal
hybridization. Two other such
processes—much less attended to
in the theoretical debate but no less
problematic as regards social integration—
are societal ageing and robotization.
Drawing on statistical estimates,
this paper begins by assessing
the relevance of the second of these
new processes of hybridization. The
predictions in question indicate that
in the near future, everyday interaction
with ‘intelligent’ machines will be an omnipresent phenomenon,
confronting our societies with types
and degrees of alterity never before
encountered. Whereas contact with
cultural strangers is to some extent
familiar (though not yet taken as
standard), interaction with intelligent
technological devices represents a
new form of alterity for which most
societies have not yet established
routines of conduct. This paper
gives a detailed account of a number
of empirical studies showing how
new forms of hybrid interaction and
cooperation evolve out of repeated
contact with this new alterity. With
this groundwork in place, the paper
then attempts to identify not only
the ways in which routines may
develop out of interaction with
robots and virtual agents but also the
trends towards, and prerequisites for,
the emergence of a new culture of
cooperation and interaction.