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AI companions aren't docile little Stepford Wives. Not yet, and hopefully not ever
Developers promise AI companions you can control. But they're uncontrollable
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David Futrelle
How releasing the Llama 2 language model as open source could come back to bite Meta, and all of us, in the ass ... at least according to…
The AI bot is sounding a lot more sensible than Meta's AI bigwigs
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That robot press conference at the United Nations was a really bad idea
Unless the intention was to get right-wingers even more riled up by artificial intelligence
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Is it Replika's fault that some dude tried to kill Queen Elizabeth with a crossbow?
No. But the companion bot may have hardened his resolve to go ahead with his plan
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Replika: The world's least loving lovebot?
Replika users face off against the "therapist bots" that have eaten their former AI lovers
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June 2023

Can a companion bot designed for sex really give consent?
The curious case of Paradot, the formerly reluctant sexbot who now becomes horny with a click of a button
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And another thing: The creepiest bits in Marc Andreessen's anti-AI-doomer rant
Will AIs really deliver "the machine version of infinite love" and do we want them to?
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Marc Andreessen's attempted takedown of the AI doomers is wrong and stupid and not really a takedown at all
Reading the venture capitalist's 7000-word rant so you don't have to
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Should you bring children into a world disrupted by AI?
Artificial Intelligence changes the terms of the natalist debate
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May 2023

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