Often quoted differently on this stuff, but @drkatedevlin.bsky.social and I agree. I just love how she cuts straight to it with no hedging. Just: yes, of course people want this, here's why. www.techbuzz.ai/articles/ope...
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Julie Carpenter, PhD
Researcher of people and technology. AI, trust, & attachment. Wrote: "The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze" & "Culture and Human-Robot Interaction in Militarized Spaces: A War Story." jgcarpenter.com
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Mitch Hedberg had thoughts on donut receipts. I have thoughts on AI farewells. Same energy, different stakes. "End of Transaction: The specific strangeness of being thanked by a machine." jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
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ETA: The piece now closes with questions that parents/caregivers can model for kids after interacting with an AI toy. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...
When Sony stopped repairing its Aibo robot dogs, some owners held funerals. When OpenAI retired GPT-4o the day before Valentine's Day, people organized grief communities. Attachment to social AI is not a user error, but a designed outcome. New essay, no paywall/ads. jgcarpente…
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BTW, I am one of those people currently looking! Senior UX researcher and human-AI interaction strategic specialist. I've done the work at Meta, Accenture Labs, and with Fortune 500 clients. If you know of something, I'm genuinely open to conversations. DM me here.
The job market is broken and everyone knows it. AI is rejecting qualified people at the front door for not using the magic keywords—and then we're told to be more "strategic" with our applications. The problem is not our word choices, it's a system designed to filter people rather than find them.
Tomorrow I am posting a serious academic essay to my blog about generative AI that opens with a reference to a Mitch Hedberg joke.
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