Hal Hershfield

The Shape of My-AI: How Multimodality Shapes Trust and Persuasion in Interactions with an AI-Generated Future Self

AI-generated future selves allow people to engage in dialogue with a personalized digital representation of themselves decades ahead, yet it remains unclear how presentation modality shapes their psychological impact. We report a randomized between-subjects study (n=92) comparing three modalities of an AI-generated fu…