Lab

Ophelia Deroy's Lab


About the lab

We put philosophical hypotheses to test using simulations, behavioural and neural methods.

Featured research (1)

Humans may deprive each other of human qualities if the social context encourages it. But what about the opposite: do people attribute human traits to non-human entities without a mind, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Perceived humanness is based on the assumption that the other can act (has agency) and has experiences (thoughts and feelings). This review shows that AI fails to fully elicit these two dimensions of mind perception. Embodied AI may trigger agency attribution, but only humans trigger the attribution of experience. Importantly, people are more likely to attribute mind in general and agency specifically to AI that resembles the human form. Lastly, people’s pre-dispositions and the social context affect people’s tendency to attribute human traits to AI.

Lab head

Ophelia Deroy
Department
  • Faculty of Philosophy & Munich Center for Neuroscience

Members (6)

Anita Keshmirian
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
John Dorsch
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
Lenka Gorman
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
Azenet Lopez
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
Rubina Chandnani
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
Rebecca Geiselmann
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
Bahador Bahrami
Bahador Bahrami
  • Not confirmed yet
Justin Sulik
Justin Sulik
  • Not confirmed yet
Justin Sulik
Justin Sulik
  • Not confirmed yet
Maximilian Moll
Maximilian Moll
  • Not confirmed yet
Louis Longin
Louis Longin
  • Not confirmed yet
Mark Carstensten
Mark Carstensten
  • Not confirmed yet
Merle Fairhurst
Merle Fairhurst
  • Not confirmed yet
Slawa Loev
Slawa Loev
  • Not confirmed yet

Alumni (1)

Laura Schmidt
  • Hochschule Düsseldorf