Understanding and embracing artificial agents’ impact on the social dynamics of families

Descripción del proyecto

Navegar por la inteligencia artificial en familia

La creciente presencia de la inteligencia artificial (IA) en los hogares plantea interrogantes sobre su impacto en la dinámica familiar. ¿Cómo confiamos, conectamos y nos entendemos cuando intervienen agentes artificiales? El cambio plantea la necesidad de explorar la intersección entre la psicología humana, la neurociencia y la interacción de la IA en contextos familiares. En este sentido, el equipo del proyecto F-AI-MILY, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, pretende desarrollar ideas que podrían conformar al futuro de las relaciones familiares. Al estudiar la cognición social en el hogar, el equipo de F-AI-MILY descubre matices en el comportamiento y las respuestas cerebrales. También explora cómo el desarrollo de los menores confluye con la influencia de la IA, especialmente en las interacciones a largo plazo. Además, el equipo de F-AI-MILY aspira a desarrollar sistemas de IA para apoyar a los hogares que se enfrentan a enfermedades crónicas, fomentando dinámicas sociales adaptativas.

Objetivo

How we trust, feel, understand, and connect with family members shapes the well-being of all family members. With families increasingly inviting artificial agents into their life, questions arise how we can describe these dynamics in the age of artificial intelligence. Integrating insights and methods from family psychology, social neuroscience, and human-ai interaction, F-AI-MILY will 1) establish a new group-centred mobile-lab approach to study the neurocognition of family social dynamics, 2) describe the developmental aspects of changes in households’ social dynamic during long-term interactions with artificial agents, and 3) identify how sustainable interactions with artificial agents can provide support in households with chronic illness. First, we will develop a new group-centred mobile lab to study how the key mechanisms of social dynamics, similarity and distance between family members, are impacted by interactions with artificial agents. Using this innovative neurocognition-at-home approach we will measure both behavioural and brain measures of key attitudes and behaviours of all family members and uncover social dynamics with unprecedented detail and clarity. Second, we will test how child development interacts with the impact of artificial agents on social dynamics. Going beyond one-off interactions, we will directly test how long-term living with an artificial agent affects families with children (4-12 years) that differ in their flexibility to the influence of these agent. Third, we will use the neurocognition-at-home approach to guide the development of artificial agents to support vulnerable households. This artificial agent support system targets family coping with chronic illness and aims to change maladaptive to adaptive social dynamics. The innovative, interdisciplinary, and full circle approach of F-AI-MILY offers new ground-breaking vistas on family systems, neurocognition of social behaviour, and the developmental of artificial agents.