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• The Conversation How tarot readers are using AI – and what it says about our growing reliance on chatbots for emotional support and advice
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Bibtex

@inproceedings{2026interpretivecultures,
  title = {Interpretive Cultures: Resonance, Randomness and Negotiated Meaning for AI-Assisted Tarot Divination},
  author = {Matthew Kieran Prock* and Ziv Epstein* and Hope Schroeder and Amy Smith and Cassandra Lee and Vana Goblot and Farnaz Jahanbakhsh},
  booktitle = {ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  year = {2026},
}