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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 5d

*high-fives* to @amperjay.bsky.social for the latest in our line of scholarship on sense of place.

Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/1461...

(another Newhouse School at Syracuse University x Syracuse University School of Information Studies joint)

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · Sep 1

Seeking folks with AI companions (like #replika, #kindroid, #nomiai) to participate in academic research exploring dimensions of this form of companionship. More information here (or message me with questions)
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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · Sep 1

Seeking folks with AI companions (like #replika, #kindroid, #nomiai) to participate in academic research exploring dimensions of this form of companionship. More information here (or message me with questions)
syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · May 15

Full. 🍊

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · May 9

I'm conducting an academic study of how people think/feel about different AI behaviors. If you are interested in participating, please complete the initial survey at the link below; some will be selected for zoom interviews (with pay!). More info:
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Beliefs About AI Behavior - Initial Survey

A survey about large-language model (LLM) uses and experiences, conducted by Dr. Jaime Banks (Syracuse University).

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · May 6

Not stewed. Fresh.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · May 4

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · Apr 8

A little bit of pot-stirring, now out ...

Star-Painters and Shape-Makers: Considering Personal Identity in Relation to Social Artificial Intelligence | Oxford Intersections: AI in Society | Oxford Academic

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · Apr 3

If you engage in knowledge/information work through school/job, please help my doctoral advisee complete her thesis research. A 30-minute online survey (desktop/laptop only - no mobile!) gets you that feel-good scientific contribution and entry for a gift card drawing. #commsky

Experiences with AI-supported Knowledge Work

A scientific study conducted by Dr. Banks and Katherine Hurtado-da Silva from Syracuse University School of Information Studies.

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · Mar 16

A new paper out with Qingyu Liang - development and initial validation of a self-report scale for measuring humans' perceptions of sharing understanding with an LLM. tmb.apaopen.org/pub/tzjxqjxh...

Perceived Shared Understanding Between Humans and Artificial Intelligence: Development and Validation of a Self-Report Scale

Volume 6, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000161

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · Feb 6

Excited for this funded work on AI companionship, its processes, and its outcomes ... With colleague Caleb Carr and brilliant PhD student Zhixin Li. 💻🧡🧠

iSchool Professor Jaime Banks Secures $600,000 NSF Grant to Research Human Experiences of AI - iSchool | Syracuse University

iSchool professor Jaime Banks secured a $600,00 NSF grant to study how we perceive AI companions. Over four years, her team will explore how language and social cognition shape our relationships with ...

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · Jan 29

Yours truly ...

Syracuse University on LinkedIn: AI Companionship

How is artificial intelligence shaping the way we think about love, loss and companionship? 🤖🧡 Associate Professor Jaime Banks dives into the rise of AI…

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · Jan 27

Check out Dr. @bowmanspartan.bsky.social

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · Jan 21

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · Jan 17

BEST

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Lindsay Hahn @lindsayhahn.bsky.social · Jan 9

Thrilled to announce keynote speakers for #moralmedia25 - Drs. Helena Bilandzic (U Augsburg), @mdehghani.bsky.social (U Southern California), @aeden.bsky.social (Michigan State U), & @fhopp.bsky.social (Leibniz Institute for Psychology). Submissions are due Feb 2!

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · Dec 31

I'll present three fun papers at HICSS next week, out now in Proceedings:
*AI art debates over time: hdl.handle.net/10125/108904
*How we see (different) robots as worthy of moral consideration: hdl.handle.net/10125/108906
*When an LLM reminds you it's a machine: hdl.handle.net/10125/109120

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · Dec 6

🤖 Just in time for your holiday shopping. 🤭
Our new book collects the work of 38 scholars from 12 countries to break down social robots into their constitutive bits and consider how they help social robots be, well, social.
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Android, Assembled: The Explicit and Implicit Anatomy of Social Robots (Digital Formations)

Android, Assembled: The Explicit and Implicit Anatomy of Social Robots (Digital Formations) [Jones, Steve, Banks, Jaime] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Android, Assembled: The Explicit and Implicit Anatomy of Social Robots (Digital Formations)

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Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social · Dec 4

Moral psychology postdoc opportunity at the University of Toronto! Please repost, and pass on to anyone you think might be interested.

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · Dec 4

Ha! They didn't even tell me it was available. 😬

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · Nov 23

Oh! Can I get a copy plz?

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · Nov 11

Most excellent cover art (Insta: ninjajo_art) for my upcoming edited volume in the Digital Formations Series (Peter Lang). It brings together the work of 38 scholars from 12 countries--empiricists, engineers, ethicists, philosophers, rhetoricians, critical scholars--to unpack robot sociality.

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · Oct 15

New paper out! And this one is special, because it is first-authored by one of our Syracuse iSchool UNDERGRAD honors students. This paper grew out of her honors thesis, and I'm extremely proud of Sung and her work. doi.org/10.1080/2326...

Expanding experiences and anxieties: gender-identity and sexual-orientation differences in attitudes toward synthetic pornography

Media-technology innovations have long been animated by demand for sexual content, and generative artificial intelligence (AI) is no exception. Synthetic pornography (SP) (distinct from deepfakes) ...

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · Aug 6

Jessica Szczuka, Neil McArthur, and I want to drop some knowledge on #sxsw with our panel on the science of AI companions ... and we've recruited master-synthesizer Nick Bowman to moderate the session. Please pop into #panelpicker and offer your vote for our session: panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/150365

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PanelPicker® is the official SXSW user-generated session proposal platform. Enter ideas and vote to help shape Conference programming for SXSW and SXSW EDU.

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Jaime Banks @amperjay.bsky.social · Aug 2

A new paper out - a deep dive into the experiences of people who have cultivated relationships with AI companions and then lost them when the companion platform shut down. In short, there are a range of experiences (from indifference to deep grief) that align with 'templates' of aliveness/deadness.

Deletion, departure, death: Experiences of AI companion loss - Jaime Banks, 2024

Social machines’ human-likeness facilitates relationship formation with humans. This aliveness, though, leaves room for people to experience the loss of machine...

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