14 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…
HumanAgencyBench: Scalable Evaluation of Human Agency Support in AI Assistants
Benjamin Sturgeon, Daniel Samuelson, Jacob Haimes +1
As humans delegate more tasks and decisions to artificial intelligence (AI), we risk losing control of our individual and collective futures. Relatively simple algorithmic systems…