Every week brings new product announcements promising AI-driven companionship for children: Barbies who call you by name, ...

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Yurina Noguchi, 32, waves her bouquet toward an image of Klaus, her AI partner, displayed on her mobile phone after their ...

As AI becomes a daily companion, questions about machine consciousness are growing harder to ignore. Cambridge philosopher Dr ...

Social media’s effects on children and teens were already a focus for the state’s Child Fatality Task Force. Now, the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence is raising alarms for the legislative ...

Recent experiments with “AI therapists” reveal what happens when algorithms learn to mimic empathy but not understand it. The ...

AI relationships and AI companions are growing globally, offering comfort yet raising privacy, ethical and regulatory ...

Most teens are using chatbots -- and not just for homework help. Are your kids replacing human relationships with AI?

Although tech companies often don’t directly manufacture these toys, their absolutist ideological opposition to any legal ...

The CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of DeepMind in 2010 reflects on today’s technological challenges: ‘My main hope is ...