3 papers
cs.HC2026
Synthetic Contact with AI Reduces Cross-Partisan Animosity
Benjamin Lira, Noah Castelo, Stefano Puntoni +1
Americans' warmth toward members of the opposing political party has fallen sharply over the past three decades -- yet meaningful cross-partisan contact remains scarce, in part bec…
cs.HC2025
Lessons From an App Update at Replika AI: Identity Discontinuity in Human-AI Relationships
Julian De Freitas, Noah Castelo, Ahmet K. UÄuralp +1
Can consumers form especially deep emotional bonds with AI and be vested in AI identities over time? We leverage a natural app-update event at Replika AI, a popular US-based AI com…
cs.RO2025
Anti Robot Speciesism
Julian De Freitas, Noah Castelo, Bernd Schmitt +1
Humanoid robots are a form of embodied artificial intelligence (AI) that looks and acts more and more like humans. Powered by generative AI and advances in robotics, humanoid robot…