Why We're Fascinated by Robots That Move Unpredictably

When people were given a description of an object that made it sound unpredictable, like you couldn't anticipate its actions, they were more willing to say the object has a mind. This is why we 're fascinated by robots that move in unpredictable ways. Sometimes people attribute a mind to something when it's not there. But they do that as an effort to explain what's going on in this autonomous agent. They're more likely to do that when an agent behaves somewhat unpredictably.