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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…
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…
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…
LLM Social Simulations Are a Promising Research Method
Jacy Reese Anthis, Ryan Liu, Sean M. Richardson +5
Accurate and verifiable large language model (LLM) simulations of human research subjects promise an accessible data source for understanding human behavior and training new AI sys…
Robots, Chatbots, Self-Driving Cars: Perceptions of Mind and Morality Across Artificial Intelligences
Ali Ladak, Matti Wilks, Steve Loughnan +1
AI systems have rapidly advanced, diversified, and proliferated, but our knowledge of people's perceptions of mind and morality in them is limited, despite its importance for outco…
The Human Factor in AI Red Teaming: Perspectives from Social and Collaborative Computing
Alice Qian Zhang, Ryland Shaw, Jacy Reese Anthis +9
Rapid progress in general-purpose AI has sparked significant interest in "red teaming," a practice of adversarial testing originating in military and cybersecurity applications. AI…
Which Artificial Intelligences Do People Care About Most? A Conjoint Experiment on Moral Consideration
Ali Ladak, Jamie Harris, Jacy Reese Anthis
Many studies have identified particular features of artificial intelligences (AI), such as their autonomy and emotion expression, that affect the extent to which they are treated a…