Riko Nyberg

Blog by Riko Nyberg

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Audio versions of my blog on AI, human experience, and the space between. Listen anywhere, anytime. Enjoy 🤙📝 Blog: blog.riko.io🔗 More: riko.ioI'm Riko Nyberg — CTO at Adalyon, PhD researcher on AI Empathy, and Chair of Junction, the world's largest AI hackathon. I build speech-based health technology and study how AI understands (and misunderstands) us.

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Riko Nyberg

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Not How, but Why Do We Build Human-Like AI? 12.03.2026 9:36

When a psychotherapist and an AI researcher sit down to talk about empathy, you'd expect them to discuss how to make AI more human. Instead, they end up asking why we want to, and what our own psychology reveals about the answer. Riko Nyberg and Henriika Maikku explore the warmth × competence framework, why loneliness makes us bond with machines, and why building human-like AI is economically...

AI's Missing Fear: Why Machines Can Humiliate Without Consequence 20.02.2026 9:56

An AI bot submitted code to an open source project, got rejected, and autonomously wrote a blog post attacking the maintainer by name. No hesitation. No shame. No fear of consequences. This incident reveals something fundamental about where AI is today and what's missing. I break down why fear and humiliation matter more than we think, how safety rules are just "tape on the shell," a...