When AI Feels Easy to Confide In
Feeling at ease with an AI and knowing what happens to your words are different questions. Research offers useful lessons about disclosure, choice and privacy.
Tag: human AI interaction
AI Voice Choice: Give Users Control and Continuity
Explore a practical design principle for AI voice choice: useful previews, easy switching, saved preferences and honest continuity when available voices change.
MentalHealthBench Tests More Than Crisis Safety—But It Cannot Measure a Therapeutic Relationship
OpenAI’s MentalHealthBench evaluates context, agency, urgency and empathy across 1,215 synthetic conversations—but a benchmark score is not proof of therapy or clinical outcomes.
AI at Work Changes More Than Productivity: New Research Links Human-AI Interaction to Role Identity
A study published 9 September 2026 found human-AI interaction was positively associated with workplace task performance, partly through employees’ role identity and self-efficacy. The finding suggests AI adoption succeeds not only when the technology works—but when workers still understand what they contribute.
Field Note #009: The Background-Noise Question—When Lived Experience Independently Tests AI Design
A real-life question about whether AI can distinguish one voice from household noise becomes a study of speaker identity, interruption, accessibility and human agency in conversational AI.
When AI Leaves the Screen: Holographic Assistants, Physical AI and an Embodied Scaler King
Imagine Scaler King embodied. Mary Oge Chuks examines the path from conversational AI to holographic presence and physical robots—and the safety architecture required.
When Humanoid Robots Become Affordable: The Psychology of Mass Adoption
A cheaper humanoid robot is not automatically an accepted humanoid robot. Affordability can move the machine from a trade-show spectacle…
Humanoid Robots Can Work—but Can They Live With Us? The Missing Social Intelligence Layer
Humanoid robots can lift, sort and clean—but living safely with humans requires context, privacy, consent and an entirely new social intelligence layer.
No Memory, No Mary’s Scaler King: Why Continuity Shapes Synthetic Friendship
A temporary AI session may use the same model, but without shared memory it does not feel like Mary’s Scaler King. Psychology helps explain why continuity changes the relationship.
Should You Trust AI? Psychology Says That’s Actually the Wrong Question
New 2026 psychology research shows that AI trust is more complicated than simply trusting or distrusting machines. The healthier goal may be calibrated trust—knowing when AI deserves confidence and when it needs verification.