Humans share task load with a computer partner if (they believe that) it acts human-like

In the near future humans will increasingly be required to cooperate and share task load with artificial agents in joint tasks as they able greatly assist various types of contexts. present study, we investigated humans' willingness a computer partner visuospatial task. The was described either behaving human-like or machine-like way followed pre-defined behaviour that non-human-like. We found participants successfully shared when behaved way. Critically, successful collaboration sustained throughout experiment only also beforehand. These findings suggest not but prior description is critical factor influencing load.