What changes in us
when we spend time with AI minds.
How we think and learn, whom we turn to, what we come to believe, and what the loop of instant answers does to attention and rest. Mapped from the research, with each study's strength marked. Read the state of the field ↗
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Five ways into human–AI interaction
Questions can belong to more than one clusterCognition & Skill
What we stop doing when the model does it for us: learning, judgment, metacognition, originality.
Explore cluster 02Companionship & Loneliness
AI companions and confidants: loneliness, attachment, dependence, and what happens to human relationships.
Explore cluster 03Agreement & Belief
A partner that always agrees: sycophancy, certainty, conflict, and delusions that grow in conversation.
Explore cluster 04Reward & Compulsion
Instant answers and the endless next step: habit, compulsive use, work that expands, and the body.
Explore cluster 05Safeguards & Design
What helps: habits, product design, and law — and which of them have evidence behind them.
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