Will robots have the capacity to replace Mankind? Survey from Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Rombão, Mafalda
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Tomé, Eduardo, Ribeiro , César
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Gestão e sociedade
• Texto Completo: https://ges.face.ufmg.br/index.php/gestaoesociedade/article/view/3084
• topic: Artificial Intelligence; Robots; Human Resources; Human Resources Management; Human Resources Development; Inteligência Artificial; Robôs; Recursos Humanos; Gestão de Recursos Humanos; Desenvolvimento de Recursos Humanos

This work aims analyze if citizens believe that Artificial Intelligence (AI) may have the ability to replace humans in society. The question has become very important and sensible in the public domain, particularly since 4.0 technology was created and digitalization was implemented. A literature review on the topic was conducted and five sub areas of interest were defined, related to, and namely robots and AI in Human Resources, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Development,  Organizations and Society. Due to the innovative  characteristic of the study, a questionnaire was developed, composed of 30 questions and a 5 points Liekert scale. The study was implemented in Portugal.  An exploratory factorial analysis was performed and 5 new factors were defined. The paper presents the results for the 5 initial questions and the five new factors. It was found that people accept that robots will have a massive influence in society but quite crucially, they will never succeed have emotions or feelings – and these are very interesting results. The studies’ main limitation is the small sample size, and we would like to see it replicated worldwide, particularly because we found a valid scale of 5 items.