No secrets between the two of us: Privacy concerns over using AI agents.

The diverse spread of artificial intelligence (AI) agents provides evidence the most notable changes in current media landscape. AI mostly function based on voluntary and involuntary sharing users’ personal information. Accordingly, privacy concerns have become key to understanding varied psychological responses towards agents. In this study, we adopt “computers are social actors” paradigm identify association between a set relational variables—intimacy, para-social interactions, presence—and determine whether user’s motivations moderate relationship. results from an online survey (N = 562) revealed that occurs primarily gratify three agent user needs: entertainment motivation, instrumental passing time. also confirmed presence intimacy significantly influence concerns. These support moderating effect both motivation relationship intimacy, interaction, presence, about using Further implications for context AI-mediated communications discussed.