Trust and Coordinated Group Action
Mäkelä, P., & Hakli, R. (2025). Trust and Coordinated Group Action. In J. Seibt, P. Fazekas, & O. Santiago Quick (Eds.), Social Robots with AI: Prospects, Risks, and Responsible Methods: Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2024, 19–23 August 2024, Aarhus University, Denmark, and online (pp. 633-642). (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Vol. 397).
Trust between the participants of a group action is a presupposition of smooth coordination. We study whether robots could participate in joint action, and whether there is conceptual space for robots to figure as trustworthy cooperators in light of various philosophical trust accounts. We discuss different notions of joint action and group action and locate robots into the scale of such notions of varying strength.