Paolo Buttazzoni
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Paolo Buttazzoni is a rising scholar at the intersection of moral psychology and artificial intelligence ethics. His research focuses on how humans evaluate decisions made by AI versus human agents, particularly in high-stakes contexts like healthcare. Buttazzoni’s most cited work, “Moral psychological exploration of the asymmetry effect in AI-assisted euthanasia decisions” (2025), identifies and names the “Human-Robot moral judgment asymmetry”—a systematic bias where AI agents face harsher moral scrutiny than humans for identical actions. This contribution has already garnered attention (2 citations in its first year), laying groundwork for understanding public resistance to AI in sensitive roles. By documenting this asymmetry across diverse decision-making contexts, Buttazzoni reveals deep-seated psychological barriers to AI integration in medicine and beyond. His work bridges empirical moral psychology with pressing policy questions, offering a framework for anticipating and addressing societal pushback against autonomous systems. For students and researchers, Buttazzoni’s research is essential reading for anyone grappling with the ethical dimensions of human-AI interaction and the cognitive biases shaping our acceptance of machine agency.
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