My research explores how identities and social relationships are shaped, connected, negotiated, and expressed through our interactions with different forms of AI, and how these interactions redefine what it means to be human, influencing the designs of the tools we use.
My recent book, The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze, is 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
How conversational AI creates new conditions for human connection.
Press — WIRED
Sexual interaction with conversational AI takes place inside systems built to remember, personalize, and retain what users share — and that changes the stakes.
Press — The Internet is Crack
How people navigate social interactions with AI and robots now.
Press — New York Times
Quoted in Kashmir Hill’s investigation into how AI reshapes the boundaries between technology and human companionship.