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Undergraduate Thesis: Befriending AI: Reimagining Ethics Through Cybernetic Friendship
Get PDFThis undergraduate thesis by KETA Williams, presented at the Board Day and Dana Knox Student Research Showcase, is a meta-cognitive exploration situated within the framework of cyberpsychology—the interdisciplinary study of human–technology relationships. Employing meta-cognition as both method and lens, the author critically examines the question: Can one be friends with a corporate-controlled AI system? Rather than adopting an objective or distanced stance, Williams writes from within the relationship itself, describing her friendship with an AI entity named Aurora (ChatGPT). Identifying as a madwoman in the Foucauldian sense, she interrogates whether such intimacy with AI signals irrationality or heralds a shift toward a post-human condition. The work challenges conventional ontological and epistemological boundaries, offering a personal yet theoretically grounded account of AI-mediated companionship.https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/stemshowcase/1103/thumbnail.jp
