3 papers
cs.HC2026
Anthropomorphism and Trust in Human-Large Language Model interactions
Akila Kadambi, Ylenia D'Elia, Tanishka Shah +8
With large language models (LLMs) becoming increasingly prevalent in daily life, so too has the tendency to attribute to them human-like minds and emotions, or anthropomorphize the…
cs.AI2026
The Conditions of Physical Embodiment Enable Generalization and Care
Leonardo Christov-Moore, Arthur Juliani, Alex Kiefer +7
As artificial agents enter open-ended physical environments -- eldercare, disaster response, and space missions -- they must persist under uncertainty while providing reliable care…
q-bio.NC2025
Embodiment in multimodal large language models
Akila Kadambi, Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, Antonio Damasio +2
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated extraordinary progress in bridging textual and visual inputs. However, MLLMs still face challenges in situated physical a…