{"id":771,"date":"2018-08-07T15:48:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T15:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/?p=771"},"modified":"2018-08-07T15:48:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T15:48:56","slug":"even-black-robots-are-impacted-by-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2018\/08\/07\/even-black-robots-are-impacted-by-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Even black robots are impacted by racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To varying extents, we humans are familiar with humans\u2019 racist tendencies toward one another. We may not be as aware that we can be racist toward robots too. A new study suggests that if robots have anthropomorphic features like eyes or a face, people will often look at the color of the machine and, if asked to, assign the robot a racial category. And when asked to respond to a threatening robot, humans are quicker to shoot black robots than white ones.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90212508\/even-black-robots-are-impacted-by-racism\">entire article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To varying extents, we humans are familiar with humans\u2019 racist tendencies toward one another. We may not be as aware that we can be racist toward robots too. A new study suggests that if robots have anthropomorphic features like eyes or a face, people will often look at the color of the machine and, if&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2018\/08\/07\/even-black-robots-are-impacted-by-racism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}