Would You Turn Off a Robot Teammate if a Robot Manager instructed you to do so?

A new study from the University of Chicago reveals that we are more loyal than what you would think

We are gradually entering a world where robots may become or bosses or co-workers. Imagine your robot coworker keeps messing up, and another robot—its manager—tells you to just shut it down and finish the job yourself. Would you do it? Try the following poll before you read the rest of this article.

A new research study from the Human Robot Interaction Lab at the University of Chicago concludes that your answer depends heavily on one surprising factor: whether the two robots seem like they’re already friends and have worked with each other.