Evolution and revolution: Personality research for the coming world of robots, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems

In forty years, human existence will be radically transformed by advances in information technology, including Artificial Intelligence, robots capable of social agency, and other autonomous physical and virtual systems. Future personality research must assess, understand, and apply individual differ...

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Veröffentlicht in:Personality and individual differences 2021-02, Vol.169, p.109969, Article 109969
Hauptverfasser: Matthews, Gerald, Hancock, Peter A., Lin, Jinchao, Panganiban, April Rose, Reinerman-Jones, Lauren E., Szalma, James L., Wohleber, Ryan W.
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Zusammenfassung:In forty years, human existence will be radically transformed by advances in information technology, including Artificial Intelligence, robots capable of social agency, and other autonomous physical and virtual systems. Future personality research must assess, understand, and apply individual differences in adaptation to these novel challenges. This review article discusses directions for future personality research. Cross-cultural research provides a model, in that both universal traits and those specific to future society are needed. Evolution of major “etic” trait models of today will maintain their relevance. There is also scope for defining a range of new “emic” dimensions for constructs such as trust in autonomy, mental models for robots, anthropomorphism of technology, and preferences for communication with machines. A more revolutionary perspective is that availability of big data on the individual will revive idiographic perspectives. Both nomothetic and idiographic accounts of personality may support applications such as design of intelligent systems and products that adapt to the individual.
ISSN:0191-8869
1873-3549
DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2020.109969