Sentience Institute

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Digital Companionship: Overlapping Uses of AI Companions and AI Assistants

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 = 202) and 30 interviews with high-engagement ChatGPT and Replika users, we characterize digital companionship as an emerging form of human…

CHI '26Agent Personality & Anthropomorphism +2

Mental Models of Autonomy and Sentience Shape Reactions to AI

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 autonomously and companions that recognize and express emotions may activate mental models of autonomy and sentience, respectively, provoking distin…

CSCW '25Responsible and Ethical AI

The AI Double Standard: Humans Judge All AIs for the Actions of One

Robots and other artificial intelligence (AI) systems are widely perceived as moral agents responsible for their actions. As AI proliferates, these perceptions may become entangled via the moral spillover of attitudes towards one AI to attitudes towards other AIs. We tested how the seemingly harmful and immoral action…

CHI '25Honorable MentionAI Ethics, Fairness & Accountability +2

Perceptions of Sentient AI and Other Digital Minds: Evidence from the AI, Morality, and Sentience (AIMS) Survey

Humans now interact with a variety of digital minds, systems that appear to have mental faculties such as reasoning, emotion, and agency, and public figures are discussing the possibility of sentient AI. We present initial results from 2021 and 2023 for the nationally representative AI, Morality, and Sentience (AIMS)…

CHI '24Agent Personality & Anthropomorphism +2

Which Artificial Intelligences Do People Care About Most? A Conjoint Experiment on Moral Consideration

Many studies have identified particular features of artificial intelligences (AI), such as their autonomy and emotion expression, that affect the extent to which they are treated as subjects of moral consideration. However, there has not yet been a comparison of the relative importance of features as is necessary to d…

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AI & Machine Learning Interaction

AI Ethics, Fairness & Accountability

Voice Interaction & Conversational Systems

Agent Personality & Anthropomorphism

Affective Computing & Emotion Interaction

Affective Human-Computer Dialogue

Privacy, Security & Trust

Privacy by Design & User Control

Ethics, Fairness, Social Justice & Inclusion

Algorithmic Fairness & Bias