Human-machine interactions: Bots are more successful if they impersonate humans

An international research team sought to find out whether cooperation between humans and machines is different if the machine purports to be human. They carried out an experiment in which humans interacted with bots. The scientists show that bots are more successful than humans in certain human-machine interactions — but only if they are allowed to hide their non-human identity.

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