A research project at the Center for Innovating the Future
Core Question
How do sustained interactions with conversational AI systems affect cognition, identity formation, agency, relationships, epistemic development, and beliefs about minds, especially among young people?
Subsidiary Questions
The Interview Series
Co-Existing with AI is the interview program behind this report. Long-form recorded conversations with AI researchers, founders, policymakers, and skeptics, transcribed, coded, and analysed as an elite-informant qualitative study.
Outputs
| Flagship report, 30–50 pp. |
| Policy brief, 6–10 pp. |
| Developmentally Responsible AI Framework |
| Interview series, 30 conversations |
Methods
Transparent literature review and long-form expert interviews, transcribed with speaker attribution and coded against a fixed frame. The interview corpus is analysed following Kulkov et al., Leveraging Podcasts as Academic Resources, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2024.
Two limitations apply and are stated in every output. Participants were invited rather than sampled. Interviews were conversational rather than protocol-driven. Findings, hypotheses, and open questions are labeled as such.
Corrections Log
No corrections to date. Errors in published work are logged here with dates.