konichiwa. do you speak english? speaks japanese. would that make you more likely to trust it?evelop a relationship? well, two researchers at the london school of economics came up with an experiment to see if we would communicate better with al if its messages were delivered to us by a human. they call this computer human hybrid the echoborg. and to explore the concept, jane copestick found herself becoming an echoborg herself. the echoborg was inspired by research from stanley milgram. he is the professor behind the controversial experiments on obedience in the 1960s, to see if people would deliver electric shocks to others if instructed to buy an authority figure. milgram also studied body perception, to determine if we hold preformed opinions of other people based on their looks. by using hidden earpieces, people could speak someone else‘s thoughts through their own body. the echoborg has updated this research for the 21st century, to see if people will react better to artificial intelligence. such as the messages from an online chat bot. if they are being delivered by a hu