Full Text Available
Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.
What it is Like to Engage with AI
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2026.
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
2026
|
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1867613744661528576 |
|---|---|
| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | Backman-Daniels, Abigail Iris |
| author2 | Smit, J. P. |
| author_browse | Backman-Daniels, Abigail Iris Smit, J. P. |
| author_facet | Smit, J. P. Backman-Daniels, Abigail Iris |
| author_sort | Backman-Daniels, Abigail Iris |
| collection | Thesis |
| dc_rights_str_mv | Stellenbosch University |
| description | Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2026. |
| format | Thesis |
| id | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/135583 |
| institution | Stellenbosch University (South Africa) |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2026-06-10T12:41:00.939Z |
| license_str | Other — see source repository |
| provenance_str_mv | Harvested via OAI-PMH from SUNScholar — Stellenbosch University Repository |
| publishDate | 2026 |
| publishDateRange | 2026 |
| publishDateSort | 2026 |
| publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| publisherStr | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| record_format | dspace |
| source_str | SUNScholar — Stellenbosch University Repository |
| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/135583 What it is Like to Engage with AI Backman-Daniels, Abigail Iris Smit, J. P. Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Philosophy. Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2026. Backman-Daniels, A. I. 2026. What it is Like to Engage with AI. Unpublished masters thesis. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/0c3a95c0-24b5-4a9a-94d0-59db3b3abe19 This thesis concerns the question of ‘what it is like’ to engage with AI. The kind of engagement that I am concerned with is engagement that goes beyond interactions like requests for information or simple commands. Instead, I am interested in more substantial interactions with AI, e.g. the type of interactions with chatbots where we treat them as agents. I argue that such engagement should be understood as analogous to our engagement with fiction. I have termed this kind of engagement, full engagement. Full engagement is marked by four core properties – imagination, affective engagement, care, and epistemic indulgence. I portray our engagement with fiction as existing on a spectrum, with passive engagement at one end and active engagement at the other. In treating our engagement with AI as akin to our engagement with fiction, our engagement with AI is a heightened, more active engagement than that with fiction. In this way, then, this project interprets AI as self-generated and self-generating fiction. In making this argument, I draw heavily on fiction as well as ‘fandom’ spaces and activities. Masters 2026-04-02T06:37:21Z 2026-04-02T06:37:21Z 2026-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/135583 en Stellenbosch University 171 pages : ill. application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Backman-Daniels, Abigail Iris What it is Like to Engage with AI |
| title | What it is Like to Engage with AI |
| title_full | What it is Like to Engage with AI |
| title_fullStr | What it is Like to Engage with AI |
| title_full_unstemmed | What it is Like to Engage with AI |
| title_short | What it is Like to Engage with AI |
| title_sort | what it is like to engage with ai |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/135583 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT backmandanielsabigailiris whatitisliketoengagewithai |