The last several years have been characterized by an increasing autonomization of technology. Advanced technologies are now capable of learning and interacting. These capabilities expand the scope in which technology can be used. As a result, these increasingly autonomous machines and programs are completing an ever-growing number of tasks in collaboration with humans. This is why it is important to determine whether increasing levels of autonomy affect how technical systems are perceived by their human counterparts. An online survey experiment using vignettes to describe technical systems with varying levels of autonomy was employed to test the effects of technical autonomy on the dimensions of social cognition (i.e., warmth and competence) and mind perception (i.e., experience and agency). The findings show that increasing levels of technical autonomy impacted how the technical systems were socially perceived. More specifically, the findings suggest that the more autonomous a technical system is, the more competence and agency it will be ascribed. Conversely, increasing levels of technical autonomy had no effect on the ascription of warmth and experience. These results highlight that technical autonomy is relevant to and effectively shapes social judgements regarding technology.

最近几年的特点是技术的自动化程度不断提高。先进的技术现在能够学习和互动。这些功能扩展了可以使用技术的范围。结果，这些越来越自治的机器和程序正在与人类协作完成越来越多的任务。这就是为什么重要的一点是，确定自治程度的提高是否会影响其人类同行对技术系统的看法。使用小插曲来描述具有不同自治程度的技术系统的在线调查实验被用来测试技术自治对社会认知（即热情和能力）和心智感知（即经验和代理）维度的影响。研究结果表明，技术自主水平的提高影响了社会对技术体系的看法。更具体而言，研究结果表明，技术系统的自主性越强，其能力和代理能力就越强。相反，技术自主水平的提高对热情和经验的归属没有影响。这些结果表明，技术自主性与社会对技术的判断有关，并有效地影响着社会对技术的判断。