People are prepared to save a robot at the cost of human lives under certain conditions. When the robot was presented as a conscious being with its own thoughts, pain, and emotions, test subjects were less likely to sacrifice it in favour of anonymous people, finds a new study using moral dilemmas.

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People are prepared to save a robot at the cost of human lives under certain conditions. When the robot was presented as a conscious being with its own thoughts, pain, and emotions, test subjects were less likely to sacrifice it in favour of anonymous people, finds a new study using moral dilemmas.