Portraying Large Language Models as Machines, Tools, or Companions Affects What Mental Capacities People Attribute to Them

Allison Chen, Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Amaya Dharmasiri, Olga Russakovsky, Judith E. Fan. Portraying Large Language Models as Machines, Tools, or Companions Affects What Mental Capacities People Attribute to Them. In David Barner, Neil Bramley, Azzurra Ruggeri, Caren M. Walker, editors, Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2025, San Francisco, CA, USA, July 30 - August 2, 2025. cognitivesciencesociety.org, 2025. [doi]

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