3 papers
cs.HC2026
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.AI2025
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…
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…