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| author | Wang, Lingqing Gao, Yingting Anyi, Chidimma Lois Goel, Ashok |
| author_facet | Wang, Lingqing Gao, Yingting Anyi, Chidimma Lois Goel, Ashok |
| contents | Recent advances in AI are integrating AI into the fabric of human social life, creating transformative, co-shaping relationships between humans and AI. This trend makes it urgent to investigate how these systems, in turn, shape their users. We conducted a three-phase design study with 24 participants to explore this dynamic. Our findings reveal critical tensions: (1) social AI often exacerbates the very interpersonal problems it is designed to mitigate; (2) it introduces nuanced privacy harms for secondary users inadvertently involved in AI-mediated social interactions; and (3) it can threaten the primary user's personal agency and identity. We argue these tensions expose a problematic tendency in the user-centered paradigm, which often prioritizes immediate user experience at the expense of core human values like interpersonal ethics and self-efficacy. We call for a paradigm shift toward a more provocative and relational design perspective that foregrounds long-term social and personal consequences. |
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| spellingShingle | Futuring Social Assemblages: How Enmeshing AIs into Social Life Challenges the Individual and the Interpersonal Wang, Lingqing Gao, Yingting Anyi, Chidimma Lois Goel, Ashok Human-Computer Interaction Recent advances in AI are integrating AI into the fabric of human social life, creating transformative, co-shaping relationships between humans and AI. This trend makes it urgent to investigate how these systems, in turn, shape their users. We conducted a three-phase design study with 24 participants to explore this dynamic. Our findings reveal critical tensions: (1) social AI often exacerbates the very interpersonal problems it is designed to mitigate; (2) it introduces nuanced privacy harms for secondary users inadvertently involved in AI-mediated social interactions; and (3) it can threaten the primary user's personal agency and identity. We argue these tensions expose a problematic tendency in the user-centered paradigm, which often prioritizes immediate user experience at the expense of core human values like interpersonal ethics and self-efficacy. We call for a paradigm shift toward a more provocative and relational design perspective that foregrounds long-term social and personal consequences. |
| title | Futuring Social Assemblages: How Enmeshing AIs into Social Life Challenges the Individual and the Interpersonal |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03958 |