Strange Discovery Suggests Children Trust Robots Over Humans

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>From *The Iron Giant* to *Big Hero 6*, many of us will be familiar with tales of [kids befriending robots](https://www.sciencealert.com/4-year-year-olds-should-be-learning-about-robots-at-school-says-expert), which suggest generations of young children are more trusting of advice from machines than their own flesh and blood.

>An international research team has now found it’s not just in fiction. In a study involving 111 kids aged between 3 and 6 years old, the youngsters showed a preference for believing robots more and being more accepting when robots made mistakes.

>As kids we need to take in a huge amount of new information as we [learn about the world](https://www.sciencealert.com/kids-incredible-learning-may-all-be-down-to-1-chemical-in-the-brain), and filter out fact from fiction, and the researchers behind this new study wanted to see how information from different sources was received.

>”The question then becomes, how do children choose who to learn from when faced with conflicting testimonies?” [write](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563224000979) the researchers in their published paper.