Uluslararası Toplumsal Bilimler Dergisi

Abstract

The greatest means of comprehending the changes and transformations that soci-eties go through is to trace the shifts that take place in their daily life practices. Because environmental conditions, natural disasters, wars, discoveries, inven-tions and technological developments are highly determinative in the formation, change and re-formation of societies' daily life practices. This was explicitly ex-perienced in the transition from a traditional to an industrial society. The main factor that distinguishes industrial society from traditional society is the industrial revolution and the associated change in the mode of production. In the traditional period, a job that was carried out by a large number of people collectively has been performed by a smaller number of people with the help of a machine after the industrial revolution. This led to significant changes in the daily life practices of people around the world, especially in Western Europe. By the mid-20th cen-tury, artificial intelligence started to be implemented on semi- or fully automatic machines, which were the dominant element of the industrial revolution. Thus, industrial society shifted to a new phase or a new post-industrial era emerged. In this period in which we are currently living, a job that was previously performed by using a large number of semi- or fully automatic machines has become feasi-ble by utilizing a smaller number of artificial intelligence humanoid machines (robots).
Artificial intelligence humanoid "bots", which were initially developed mostly for entertainment purposes, began to be implemented in machines over time. Thus, artificial intelligence implementations, which have acquired a physical existence, have begun to develop human-like characteristics in terms of both their physical characteristics and the manner in which they reason. The development of artifi-cial intelligence humanoid robots, which are a combination of artificial intelli-gence and robot technology designed to have human-like characteristics, has pro-gressed rapidly and today, artificial intelligence humanoid robots can be utilized in many fields such as healthcare, education, home assistance, industrial produc-tion and entertainment.
In this study, how the Turkish society perceives artificial intelligence humanoid robots, which have been taking place more and more in our daily lives, and the attitudes and behaviors of the Turkish society towards the utilization of artificial intelligence humanoid robots in daily life were examined. In this framework, a five-point Likert-type scale consisting of fully structured questions to determine the fact and knowledge status of the participants, as well as statements to meas-ure their perceptions of artificial intelligence humanoid robots and their attitudes and behaviors towards artificial intelligence humanoid robots was implemented. In the final stage of the research, the data obtained from the participants were an-alyzed and the results obtained were reported.