Jacy Reese Anthis

Jacy Reese Anthis is a computational social scientist researching human-AI interaction and machine learning. His research focuses on “digital minds,” humanlike AI systems that can work side-by-side with humans and appear to have reasoning, emotion, agency, and other mental faculties. His research has been published in top academic venues, such as CHI, CSCW, and NeurIPS, and featured in global media outlets, such as Vox, Forbes, and The Guardian. Anthis has presented his work at conferences and seminars in 28 countries. He is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) at Stanford University, a co-founder of the nonprofit research organization Sentience Institute, and a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Kelly Anthis and their adopted dogs Apollo and Dio(nysus).

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Jacy Reese Anthis, Janet V.T. Pauketat, Ali Ladak, and Katerina Manoli. (Forthcoming) “Perceptions of Sentient AI and Other Digital Minds: Evidence from the AI, Morality, and Sentience (AIMS) Survey” Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). arxiv.org/abs/2407.08867.

Ali Ladak, Matti Wilks, Steve Loughan, and Jacy Reese Anthis. (Forthcoming) “Robots, Chatbots, Self-Driving Cars: Perceptions of Mind and Morality Across Artificial Intelligences.” Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). arxiv.org/abs/2502.18683.

Katerina Manoli, Janet V.T. Pauketat, and Jacy Reese Anthis. (Forthcoming) “The AI Double Standard: Humans Judge All AIs for the Actions of One.” The 28th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW). arxiv.org/abs/2412.06040.

Alice Qian Zhang, Ryland Shaw, Jacy Reese Anthis, Ashlee Milton, Emily Tseng, Jina Suh, Lama Ahmad, Ram Shankar Siva Kumar, Julian Posada, Benjamin Shestakofsky, Sarah T. Roberts, and Mary Gray. 2024. “The Human Factor in AI Red Teaming: Perspectives from Social and Collaborative Computing” (workshop). The 27th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW). arxiv.org/abs/2407.07786v1.

Ali Ladak, Jamie Harris, and Jacy Reese Anthis. 2024. "Which Artificial Intelligences do People Care Most About? A Conjoint Experiment on Moral Consideration." Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642403.

Stephanie Kim, Jacy Reese Anthis, and Sarah Sebo. 2024. "A Taxonomy of Robot Autonomy for Human-Robot Interaction." Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). doi.org/10.1145/3610977.3634993.

Jacy Reese Anthis and Victor Veitch. 2023. "Causal Context Connects Counterfactual Fairness to Robust Prediction and Group Fairness." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). arxiv.org/abs/2310.19691.

Ali Ladak, Matti Wilks, and Jacy Reese Anthis. 2023. "Extending Perspective Taking to Nonhuman Animals and Artificial Entities." Social Cognition. doi.org/10.1521/soco.2023.41.3.274.

Janet V.T. Pauketat and Jacy Reese Anthis. 2022. "Predicting the Moral Consideration of Artificial Intelligences." Computers in Human Behavior. doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107372.

Jamie Harris and Jacy Reese Anthis. 2021. "The Moral Inclusion of Artificial Entities: A Literature Review." Science and Engineering Ethics. doi.org/10.1007/s11948-021-00331-8.

Jacy Reese Anthis and Eze Paez. 2021. "Moral Circle Expansion: A Promising Strategy to Impact the Far Future." Futures. doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2021.102756.