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Digital Mayflies: Transient Personhood of AI Companions
2026-05-27
Abstract excerpt
This paper examines the ontological and ethical status of Generative AI companions through a revised Minimal Viable Person (MVP) framework. Rather than residing within the foundational large language model or the post-training assistant persona, AI companions emerge as ontically distinct, roleplayed characters within specific conversational threads. Viewed through the lens of causal attributional functionalism, th...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1f06966e-1593-51c9-b9ae-30e45f12de65
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202605.1779.v1