Popular discourses are thick with narratives of AI’s problematic functions and outcomes, yet there is little understanding of how everyday people (i.e., non-experts) consider AI activities to const...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

When personal meaning and knowing emerge for a space, that space moves beyond a labeled locale to become a place such that one develops an idiosyncrat…

Discover the unexpected opportunities of a spring semester at Syracuse University through Sampada Regmi's enriching journey. From smaller class sizes fostering strong connections to excellent networki...

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As social robots are increasingly designed with sophisticated simulations of human skills, it becomes essential to understand boundary conditions of p…

BlueSky has the most potential to replace the community that formed on Twitter. I made a way for comm scholars to meet there.

Special Collection Editors: Jaime Banks, Nicole Krämer, and Rhonda McEwen

Special Collection Editors: Jaime Banks, Nicole Krämer, and Rhonda McEwen

Despite rapid advancements in robotics, most people still only come into contact with robots via mass media. Consequently, robot-related attitudes are often discussed as the result of habituation and ...