Jaime Banks
@amperjay.bsky.social
Prof at Syracuse U's iSchool. Robots, social AI, videogames, dogs, wine, travel ...
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*high-fives* to @amperjay.bsky.social for the latest in our line of scholarship on sense of place.
Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/1461...
(another Newhouse School at Syracuse University x Syracuse University School of Information Studies joint)
Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/1461...
(another Newhouse School at Syracuse University x Syracuse University School of Information Studies joint)
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October 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
*high-fives* to @amperjay.bsky.social for the latest in our line of scholarship on sense of place.
Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/1461...
(another Newhouse School at Syracuse University x Syracuse University School of Information Studies joint)
Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/1461...
(another Newhouse School at Syracuse University x Syracuse University School of Information Studies joint)
Reposted by Jaime Banks
Seeking folks with AI companions (like #replika, #kindroid, #nomiai) to participate in academic research exploring dimensions of this form of companionship. More information here (or message me with questions)
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September 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Seeking folks with AI companions (like #replika, #kindroid, #nomiai) to participate in academic research exploring dimensions of this form of companionship. More information here (or message me with questions)
syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Seeking folks with AI companions (like #replika, #kindroid, #nomiai) to participate in academic research exploring dimensions of this form of companionship. More information here (or message me with questions)
syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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September 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Seeking folks with AI companions (like #replika, #kindroid, #nomiai) to participate in academic research exploring dimensions of this form of companionship. More information here (or message me with questions)
syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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I'm conducting an academic study of how people think/feel about different AI behaviors. If you are interested in participating, please complete the initial survey at the link below; some will be selected for zoom interviews (with pay!). More info:
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Beliefs About AI Behavior - Initial Survey
A survey about large-language model (LLM) uses and experiences, conducted by Dr. Jaime Banks (Syracuse University).
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May 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I'm conducting an academic study of how people think/feel about different AI behaviors. If you are interested in participating, please complete the initial survey at the link below; some will be selected for zoom interviews (with pay!). More info:
syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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May 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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A little bit of pot-stirring, now out ...
Star-Painters and Shape-Makers: Considering Personal Identity in Relation to Social Artificial Intelligence | Oxford Intersections: AI in Society | Oxford Academic
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April 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A little bit of pot-stirring, now out ...
If you engage in knowledge/information work through school/job, please help my doctoral advisee complete her thesis research. A 30-minute online survey (desktop/laptop only - no mobile!) gets you that feel-good scientific contribution and entry for a gift card drawing. #commsky
Experiences with AI-supported Knowledge Work
A scientific study conducted by Dr. Banks and Katherine Hurtado-da Silva from Syracuse University School of Information Studies.
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April 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
If you engage in knowledge/information work through school/job, please help my doctoral advisee complete her thesis research. A 30-minute online survey (desktop/laptop only - no mobile!) gets you that feel-good scientific contribution and entry for a gift card drawing. #commsky
A new paper out with Qingyu Liang - development and initial validation of a self-report scale for measuring humans' perceptions of sharing understanding with an LLM. tmb.apaopen.org/pub/tzjxqjxh...
Perceived Shared Understanding Between Humans and Artificial Intelligence: Development and Validation of a Self-Report Scale
Volume 6, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000161
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March 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
A new paper out with Qingyu Liang - development and initial validation of a self-report scale for measuring humans' perceptions of sharing understanding with an LLM. tmb.apaopen.org/pub/tzjxqjxh...
Excited for this funded work on AI companionship, its processes, and its outcomes ... With colleague Caleb Carr and brilliant PhD student Zhixin Li. 💻🧡🧠
iSchool Professor Jaime Banks Secures $600,000 NSF Grant to Research Human Experiences of AI - iSchool | Syracuse University
iSchool professor Jaime Banks secured a $600,00 NSF grant to study how we perceive AI companions. Over four years, her team will explore how language and social cognition shape our relationships with ...
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February 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Excited for this funded work on AI companionship, its processes, and its outcomes ... With colleague Caleb Carr and brilliant PhD student Zhixin Li. 💻🧡🧠
Yours truly ...
Syracuse University on LinkedIn: AI Companionship
How is artificial intelligence shaping the way we think about love, loss and companionship? 🤖🧡
Associate Professor Jaime Banks dives into the rise of AI…
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January 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Yours truly ...
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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
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Thrilled to announce keynote speakers for #moralmedia25 - Drs. Helena Bilandzic (U Augsburg), @mdehghani.bsky.social (U Southern California), @aeden.bsky.social (Michigan State U), & @fhopp.bsky.social (Leibniz Institute for Psychology). Submissions are due Feb 2!
January 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Thrilled to announce keynote speakers for #moralmedia25 - Drs. Helena Bilandzic (U Augsburg), @mdehghani.bsky.social (U Southern California), @aeden.bsky.social (Michigan State U), & @fhopp.bsky.social (Leibniz Institute for Psychology). Submissions are due Feb 2!
I'll present three fun papers at HICSS next week, out now in Proceedings:
*AI art debates over time: hdl.handle.net/10125/108904
*How we see (different) robots as worthy of moral consideration: hdl.handle.net/10125/108906
*When an LLM reminds you it's a machine: hdl.handle.net/10125/109120
*AI art debates over time: hdl.handle.net/10125/108904
*How we see (different) robots as worthy of moral consideration: hdl.handle.net/10125/108906
*When an LLM reminds you it's a machine: hdl.handle.net/10125/109120
December 31, 2024 at 11:20 PM
I'll present three fun papers at HICSS next week, out now in Proceedings:
*AI art debates over time: hdl.handle.net/10125/108904
*How we see (different) robots as worthy of moral consideration: hdl.handle.net/10125/108906
*When an LLM reminds you it's a machine: hdl.handle.net/10125/109120
*AI art debates over time: hdl.handle.net/10125/108904
*How we see (different) robots as worthy of moral consideration: hdl.handle.net/10125/108906
*When an LLM reminds you it's a machine: hdl.handle.net/10125/109120
🤖 Just in time for your holiday shopping. 🤭
Our new book collects the work of 38 scholars from 12 countries to break down social robots into their constitutive bits and consider how they help social robots be, well, social.
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Our new book collects the work of 38 scholars from 12 countries to break down social robots into their constitutive bits and consider how they help social robots be, well, social.
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Android, Assembled: The Explicit and Implicit Anatomy of Social Robots (Digital Formations)
Android, Assembled: The Explicit and Implicit Anatomy of Social Robots (Digital Formations) [Jones, Steve, Banks, Jaime] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Android, Assembled: The Explicit and Implicit Anatomy of Social Robots (Digital Formations)
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December 6, 2024 at 9:55 AM
🤖 Just in time for your holiday shopping. 🤭
Our new book collects the work of 38 scholars from 12 countries to break down social robots into their constitutive bits and consider how they help social robots be, well, social.
www.amazon.com/Android-Asse...
Our new book collects the work of 38 scholars from 12 countries to break down social robots into their constitutive bits and consider how they help social robots be, well, social.
www.amazon.com/Android-Asse...
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Moral psychology postdoc opportunity at the University of Toronto! Please repost, and pass on to anyone you think might be interested.
December 4, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Moral psychology postdoc opportunity at the University of Toronto! Please repost, and pass on to anyone you think might be interested.
Most excellent cover art (Insta: ninjajo_art) for my upcoming edited volume in the Digital Formations Series (Peter Lang). It brings together the work of 38 scholars from 12 countries--empiricists, engineers, ethicists, philosophers, rhetoricians, critical scholars--to unpack robot sociality.
November 11, 2024 at 11:32 PM
Most excellent cover art (Insta: ninjajo_art) for my upcoming edited volume in the Digital Formations Series (Peter Lang). It brings together the work of 38 scholars from 12 countries--empiricists, engineers, ethicists, philosophers, rhetoricians, critical scholars--to unpack robot sociality.
New paper out! And this one is special, because it is first-authored by one of our Syracuse iSchool UNDERGRAD honors students. This paper grew out of her honors thesis, and I'm extremely proud of Sung and her work. doi.org/10.1080/2326...
Expanding experiences and anxieties: gender-identity and sexual-orientation differences in attitudes toward synthetic pornography
Media-technology innovations have long been animated by demand for sexual content, and generative artificial intelligence (AI) is no exception. Synthetic pornography (SP) (distinct from deepfakes) ...
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October 15, 2024 at 11:40 AM
New paper out! And this one is special, because it is first-authored by one of our Syracuse iSchool UNDERGRAD honors students. This paper grew out of her honors thesis, and I'm extremely proud of Sung and her work. doi.org/10.1080/2326...
Jessica Szczuka, Neil McArthur, and I want to drop some knowledge on #sxsw with our panel on the science of AI companions ... and we've recruited master-synthesizer Nick Bowman to moderate the session. Please pop into #panelpicker and offer your vote for our session: panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/150365
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August 6, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Jessica Szczuka, Neil McArthur, and I want to drop some knowledge on #sxsw with our panel on the science of AI companions ... and we've recruited master-synthesizer Nick Bowman to moderate the session. Please pop into #panelpicker and offer your vote for our session: panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/150365
A new paper out - a deep dive into the experiences of people who have cultivated relationships with AI companions and then lost them when the companion platform shut down. In short, there are a range of experiences (from indifference to deep grief) that align with 'templates' of aliveness/deadness.
Deletion, departure, death: Experiences of AI companion loss - Jaime Banks, 2024
Social machines’ human-likeness facilitates relationship formation with humans. This aliveness, though, leaves room for people to experience the loss of machine...
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August 2, 2024 at 12:07 PM
A new paper out - a deep dive into the experiences of people who have cultivated relationships with AI companions and then lost them when the companion platform shut down. In short, there are a range of experiences (from indifference to deep grief) that align with 'templates' of aliveness/deadness.
New out with @bowmanspartan - unpacking the dimensions of Sense of Place across digital/physical and positively/negatively valenced spaces. authors.elsevier.com/a/1jOyQ_,iJ9...
Symbolism, purpose, identity, relation, emotion: Unpacking the SPIREs of sense of place across digital and physical spaces
When personal meaning and knowing emerge for a space, that space moves beyond a labeled locale to become a place such that one develops an idiosyncrat…
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July 9, 2024 at 8:37 PM
New out with @bowmanspartan - unpacking the dimensions of Sense of Place across digital/physical and positively/negatively valenced spaces. authors.elsevier.com/a/1jOyQ_,iJ9...
Glad to be continuing my research over the next three years as SU iSchool's Katchmar-Wilhelm Endowed Professor ... ischool.syr.edu/jaime-banks-...
Jaime Banks Awarded Katchmar-Wilhelm Professorship - iSchool | Syracuse University
Discover the unexpected opportunities of a spring semester at Syracuse University through Sampada Regmi's enriching journey. From smaller class sizes fostering strong connections to excellent networki...
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April 29, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Glad to be continuing my research over the next three years as SU iSchool's Katchmar-Wilhelm Endowed Professor ... ischool.syr.edu/jaime-banks-...
Today is SU Giving Day - the iSchool is raising funds to provide more equitable access to professional development opportunities for students. With 200 unique donors, an alum will give a $10k gift ... so even $1 can make a big impact on our ability to support our students success. Please consider.
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March 27, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Today is SU Giving Day - the iSchool is raising funds to provide more equitable access to professional development opportunities for students. With 200 unique donors, an alum will give a $10k gift ... so even $1 can make a big impact on our ability to support our students success. Please consider.
Some fun research presentations coming up at #HICSS24 tomorrow and Friday, with @bowmanspartan.bsky.social and Qingyu Liang ... 🧠🎮🤖💻
January 4, 2024 at 12:20 AM
Some fun research presentations coming up at #HICSS24 tomorrow and Friday, with @bowmanspartan.bsky.social and Qingyu Liang ... 🧠🎮🤖💻
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... and finally, one more -- nominated for #HICSS57 Best Overall Paper in the robotics mini-track:
Bowman, N. D., & @amperjay.bsky.social (2024). The [Object, Me, Symbiote, Other] in the Machine: Insights from video game psychology for teleoperator-robot relations. hdl.handle.net/10125/106449
Bowman, N. D., & @amperjay.bsky.social (2024). The [Object, Me, Symbiote, Other] in the Machine: Insights from video game psychology for teleoperator-robot relations. hdl.handle.net/10125/106449
The [Object, Me, Symbiote, Other] in the Machine: Insights from Video Game Psychology for Teleoperat...
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January 3, 2024 at 7:41 PM
... and finally, one more -- nominated for #HICSS57 Best Overall Paper in the robotics mini-track:
Bowman, N. D., & @amperjay.bsky.social (2024). The [Object, Me, Symbiote, Other] in the Machine: Insights from video game psychology for teleoperator-robot relations. hdl.handle.net/10125/106449
Bowman, N. D., & @amperjay.bsky.social (2024). The [Object, Me, Symbiote, Other] in the Machine: Insights from video game psychology for teleoperator-robot relations. hdl.handle.net/10125/106449