Human-AI interactions can resemble human-human social interactions, with computers, and especially AI-driven technologies, becoming increasingly important social actors. It is in these interactions ...

More and more people are turning to AI chatbots as if they were close friends—venting about personal struggles, asking for ...

What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter ...

Since ChatGPT went viral in late 2022, we have seen plenty of research that went into studying how AI models behave. Researchers wanted to see how they operate, whether they cheat for tasks or lie for ...

Introspection and empathy are vital psychological tools. Rooted in early development, our feelings, cognition, and language ...

Professor Okada uses the science of social signals to improve human-AI interaction. His research explores multimodal social signals such as gaze, gestures, and voice tone of AI users to develop ...

The concept of romantic relationships with artificial intelligence has moved from science fiction into everyday reality as millions of people worldwide engage with AI companions designed to simulate ...

Health and medical professionals have come to view social connection as a fundamental human need akin to food and shelter. In fact, the U.S. Surgeon General highlighted social isolation as a major ...

Researchers studying artificial intelligence recently observed something unusual on an experimental social media platform called MoltBook. Unlike typical social networks that are used by humans, ...