Robots would prefer you to be rude

We have a tendency to beat around the bush when we talk to each other. We use extra words, phrases, and non-literal statements just to be polite. But to most robots this is nothing more than “code bloat” in the form of useless language. If you’ve been called an impolite jerk your entire life, maybe you’re just a better robot than most people. Researchers from from the Colorado School of Mines and Tufts University recently conducted a series of experiments involving human