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Human Fondness, Faith in Machines Grows During Pandemic

This shows a man shaking hands with a computer generated hand coming out of a laptopStudying human-machine interactions, researchers found that during the pandemic, people are not only more altruistic to other humans, their behaviors also extend to machines. This may be explained by the growing popularity of digital assistants, such as Alexa.

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