Paper: Interacting with AI Transforms Humans into 'Hybrid Selves'

MacrinePhD · x · 2026-08-12

In their paper "Becoming Hybrid Selves," Anna Ciaunica and Shaun Gallagher argue that humans, as open living systems, are transformed into hybrid creatures through lifespan interactions with artificial minds and embodied AI.

The authors emphasize that this transformation is not merely about what we learn from AI, but fundamentally involves how we learn, with whom we interact, and the profound changes occurring in the relational space between human and machine.

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