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Spook the Machine: Gamified Study Explores Human Imagination of Machine Fear
Researchers built a gamified platform called Spook the Machine in which participants craft and interact with AI characters that display fear. The study examines whether people respond differently depending on how a machine expresses fear, and what those reactions suggest for designing affective human-AI interaction. It is an arXiv preprint focused on emotion-oriented AI design.