My research examines what happens when people form relationships with AI, how those relationships are experienced, what they reveal about identity and agency, and how they quietly shape the design of the systems people use every day.
My recent book, The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze, examines how the stories people tell about robots and AI don't merely reflect how these systems are built; they actively shape them. Available from Routledge, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.
Recent
Publication — AI & Society
How emotional attachment to conversational AI develops through interaction over time — and what that means for trust, dependency, and governance.
Blog — Drift
Alhpa School's monitoring and reward systems treat software-measurable signs of attention as evidence of learning, and former students describe what it is like to be watched, sorted, and required to perform them.
Press — Equilibria
I joined Charles Hill Jr, LPC, to discuss grief AI: privacy for both the deceased and the grieving, and how ongoing engagement with an AI-curated persona of someone lost can shape the grieving process.
Press — New York Times
Quoted in Kashmir Hill’s investigation into how AI reshapes the boundaries between technology and human companionship.