AI-powered pet companion toys are all the rage in Chinese markets, blending emerging tech with emotional responses.

Common Sense Media recommended that parents engage with their children directly and guide them towards more traditional ...

Lonely men and women are increasingly seeking love, sex and affection from machines. Our Writer at Large talks to the sociologist investigating ...

Science fiction promised us humanoids. Do we even want them?

Veteran radio consultant Fred Jacobs has had a month to reflect on what he saw at CES, and says broadcast radio was again nearly absent from the tech fest.

Using LLMs to talk with your friends is efficient. It’s also bad etiquette.

Talking to oneself is a trait which feels inherently human. Our inner monologs help us organize our thoughts, make decisions, ...

Allowing AI to talk to itself helps it learn faster and adapt more easily. This inner speech, combined with working memory, lets AI generalize skills using far less data.

AI will serve humanity only if we endow our creations with moral restraint rather than mathematical optimization.

CEO of Anthropic posted a lengthy essay on the woes of AI. This included AI brainwashing and AI that becomes psychotic. I take a close look. An AI Insider scoop.

Tristan Harris at the Center for Humane Technology coined the phrase “attachment economy,” which he criticizes as the “next ...