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most citedPublic Opinion and The Rise of Digital Minds: Perceived Risk, Trust, and Regulation Support

23 citations · 66 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CY2026

Method, Mind, and Morality: How People Make Sense of Artificial Intelligence

Jacy Reese Anthis, Erik Brynjolfsson, James Evans

How can humans make sense of the rapid takeoff of artificial intelligence (AI)? We studied the sensemaking dynamics of AI through an open-ended, mixed-methods study with computatio…

cs.CY2026

Effects of Generative AI Errors on User Reliance Across Task Difficulty

Jacy Reese Anthis, Hannah Cha, Solon Barocas +2

The capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) lie along a jagged frontier, where AI systems surprisingly fail on tasks that humans find easy and succeed on tasks that humans fin…

cs.CL20265 cited

Characterizing Delusional Spirals through Human-LLM Chat Logs

Jared Moore, Ashish Mehta, William Agnew +11

As large language models (LLMs) have proliferated, disturbing anecdotal reports of negative psychological effects, such as delusions, self-harm, and ``AI psychosis,'' have emerged…

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Mental Models of Autonomy and Sentience Shape Reactions to AI

Janet V. T. Pauketat, Daniel B. Shank, Aikaterina Manoli +1

Narratives about artificial intelligence (AI) entangle autonomy, the capacity to self-govern, with sentience, the capacity to sense and feel. AI agents that perform tasks autonomou…

cs.HC20251 cited

How AI Companionship Develops: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study

Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Fiona Li, Jacy Reese Anthis +1

The quickly growing popularity of AI companions poses risks to mental health, personal wellbeing, and social relationships. Past work has identified many individual factors that ca…

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Digital Companionship: Overlapping Uses of AI Companions and AI Assistants

Aikaterina Manoli, Janet V. T. Pauketat, Ali Ladak +3

Large language models are increasingly used for both task-based assistance and social companionship, yet research has typically focused on one or the other. Drawing on a survey (N…