Aleksei Gudkov
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Aleksei Gudkov is a researcher whose work critically examines the human factors of automation, with a primary focus on trust dynamics between people and intelligent systems. His most influential contribution, the 2021 paper "Overtrusting robots: Setting a research agenda to mitigate overtrust in automation," has garnered 74 citations and has been instrumental in shaping a new research direction. Rather than merely studying whether people trust robots, Gudkov’s work probes the dangerous flipside: the tendency to over-rely on automation, leading to complacency and potential failures. He has helped define a clear research agenda for identifying, measuring, and mitigating this overtrust, bridging cognitive science, human-computer interaction, and ethics. His contributions are particularly vital as autonomous systems become more prevalent in high-stakes environments like healthcare, transportation, and manufacturing. By highlighting the context-dependent nature of trust and the need for critical reflection on automation’s reliability, Gudkov has provided a foundational framework for designing safer, more transparent human-robot interactions. His work is essential reading for anyone studying the psychological and societal implications of increasingly autonomous technologies.
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