3 papers
cs.HC2025
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…
cs.HC2025
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…
cs.AI2024
Perceptions of Sentient AI and Other Digital Minds: Evidence from the AI, Morality, and Sentience (AIMS) Survey
Jacy Reese Anthis, Janet V. T. Pauketat, Ali Ladak +1
Humans now interact with a variety of digital minds, AI systems that appear to have mental faculties such as reasoning, emotion, and agency, and public figures are discussing the p…