YOU SHOULD ALWAYS KNOW WHERE THE EXITS ARE ANYWAY: Would you trust a malfunctioning robot in an emergency? These people did. “You’re in a building. The building is on fire. Luckily, an emergency robot is there to show you the way out – but it appears to be malfunctioning… or at least behaving strangely. Do you put your trust in the robot to help direct you to the exit, or try to find your own way out of the burning building? In the situation described above – the actual setting for a first-of-its-kind experiment designed to test human trust of robots in emergency situations – participants largely placed their faith in the machine to help get them to safety, despite a prior demonstration that it might not be working properly.”