Echoborg

An echoborg is a person whose words and actions are determined, in whole or in part, by an artificial intelligence. Social psychologists Kevin Corti and Alex Gillespie coined the term in 2014, based on research at the London School of Economics in which confederates had their words covertly supplied by Cleverbot and spoken with a delay via speech shadowing. Corti and Gillespie argue that other forms of human-AI interaction, such as computer-mediated conversation, alter the intersubjective relationship between human and artificial agents. The concept has also appeared in performance art as commentary on the growing ubiquity of AI.