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sentienceinstitute.bsky.social @sentienceinstitute.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Not all AGI is the same! Our 2nd #CHI2026 paper disentangles how "autonomous" AI is more threatening while "sentient" AI deserves more moral concern. These mental models will determine how people react to future AI. Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Blog: www.sentienceinstitute.org/blog/autonom...

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Mental Models of Autonomy and Sentience Shape Reactions to AI | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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sentienceinstitute.bsky.social @sentienceinstitute.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Our new #CHI2026 paper identifies "digital companionship": overlapping use of ChatGPT AI assistants and Replika AI companions. People like that they are not fully human: always forgiving you, having a reset button.. Blog: www.sentienceinstitute.org/blog/digital... Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Figure 1 from the PDF: a 2x2 of the humanlikeness and nonhumanlikeness and the allure and challenge of digital companions

Figure 5 in the paper: Two bar graphs showing "Chatbot Attributes" like Personhood and Chatbot Attitudes like Affective Trust between ChatGPT and Replika Users.

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Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Prolific is a valuable resource for social scientists, but we found big differences in direct comparison to Ipsos nationally representative data. As we race to understand complex new human-AI interaction dynamics, we should be mindful of study limitations: www.sentienceinstitute.org/aims-survey-...

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Prolific Data May Misestimate Some AI Attitudes Compared to a Nationally Representative Sample

The Artificial Intelligence, Morality, and Sentience (AIMS) survey measures the moral and social perception of different types of artificial intelligences (AIs), particularly sentient AIs.

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ACM CSCW @acm-cscw.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

When one AI misbehaves, do we hold all AI accountable? New research by @sentienceinstitute.bsky.social @kmanoli.bsky.social @jacyanthis.bsky.social shows that people blame all AI for just one AI's misconduct. 🤖

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The AI Double Standard: Why We Judge All AI for One Bot’s Mistakes

By Katerina Manoli, Janet Pauketat, and Jacy Reese Anthis

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sentienceinstitute.bsky.social @sentienceinstitute.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Our new paper in the British Journal of Social Psychology describes what people expect in a future with "widespread AI sentience." The average U.S. adult thinks AI welfare will be an important social issue and sentient AI will be exploited for their labor. www.sentienceinstitute.org/blog/world-m...

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World-Making for a Future with Sentient AI

We are pleased to announce our latest peer-reviewed publication, “World-making for a future with sentient AI” in the British Journal of Social Psychology.

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Responses to six forecasts (exploiting #AI labor, treating #AI cruelly, using #AI research subjects, #AI welfare, #AI rights advocacy, #AI unhappiness reduction) showed mixed expectations for our future with #AI. @sentienceinstitute.bsky.social bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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