Spook the Machine: Gamified Exploration of Human Imagination of Machine Fear

arXiv:2609.15472 · cs.HC, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-14 · Read on arXiv

cs.HC, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-14

Updated: 2026-09-14

Comments: To appear in the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2026)

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Embeddings — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Affective Computing — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Steering — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Foundation Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Homogenization — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accountability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptive AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptive Mechanism — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction — 1× in this paper
• Explainability — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Frustration — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Introspection — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Systematic Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Artificial Emotion: A Survey of Theories and Debates on Realising Emotion in Artificial Intelligence
• GPT-4o System Card

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