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From Interlocutor to Cognitive Extension: Brain-Computer Interface as a Step Beyond Dialogue in Conversational AI
Much of CUI research still treats the system as an interlocutor: a conversational other that should appear trustworthy, helpful, and socially adept. This paper argues that the dominance of the interlocutor metaphor has become a constraint because it strictly preserves a self other boundary. Conversational AI is increasingly used not only for dialogue, but to externalize tentative thoughts, offload cognitive work, ...