Carving Up Participation: Sense-Making and Sociomorphing for Artificial Minds.
Frontiers in neurorobotics January 1, 2022 Robin L Zebrowski, Eli B Mcgraw 6 citations
Artificial intelligence research often misunderstands social cognition by ignoring the role of interaction itself. Participatory Sense-Making (PSM) provides a way to describe how social interaction works, which is useful for robotics-based artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, PSM struggles to distinguish between living sense-makers and potentially cognitive artificial systems. Sociomorphing addresses this by allowing gradations in how such systems are defined and incorporated into asymmetrical social relationships, avoiding problems of anthropomorphism. Together, PSM and sociomorphing, reconceived beyond social robotics, offer a robust framework for AGI robotics-based approaches.