Disclosing personal information to another person has beneficial emotional, relational, and psychological outcomes. When disclosers believe they are interacting with a computer instead of another person, such as a chatbot that can simulate human-to-human conversation, outcomes may be undermined, enhanced, or equivalent. Jeff Hancock, the director of the Stanford Media Lab will discuss the downstream effects after emotional versus factual disclosures in conversations with a supposed chatbot or person, as well as current understanding of disclosure and whether its impact is altered by technology, to provide support for media equivalency as a primary mechanism for the consequences of disclosing to a chatbot.

This event is co-hosted with the AI and Robotics seminar.