Who Is The Chameleon? A party game to explore trust and biases towards Alexa, Pepper and ChatGPT

With the increasing adoption of robotic and AI systems in our daily activities, understanding how people interact with and trust these systems or may have biases towards them is becoming important for their development and safety. This paper investigates people’s level of trust and potential biases towards three robotic systems i.e. an Alexa device, robot Pepper and ChatGPT using “The Chameleon” game. In this experiment, the same words were presented to two of groups of participants, the first group played the game through an online form and the second group played the game in person with Alexa, Pepper and ChatGPT in a lab space. The game consisted in spotting the player who is the chameleon i.e. pretending to know a target word that only the other players are supposed to know. The results showed that both the online and in-person participants had similar levels of spotting the chameleon. However, participants were less able to spot Pepper when it was the chameleon, suggesting that they trusted Pepper a bit more than Alexa and ChatGPT.