Our Lives With Bots

What happens when we make an AI version of a real person, living or deceased? Welcome to Episode 3 for our exclusive Series 1 on companion chatbots, where you’ll hear from our first guest speaker, Atay Kozlovski . In this episode, you’ll hear all about griefbots , which are AI replicas of a REAL person (living or deceased) that people create to continue a relationship after, for example, a breakup...

Welcome to Episode 2 for our exclusive Series 1 on companion chatbots. In this episode, you'll hear all about the research and news (59:00) on companion chatbots. We’ll cover early research in psychology, human-computer interaction, and business. Then, you’ll get a sense of some of the recent news releases on human-chatbot relationships - like Meta’s regulatory report, the man who ~thought~ he was...

Welcome to the official introduction to our exclusive Series 1 on companion chatbots. What are companion chatbots? Why do people use them? What are the most popular companion chatbots out there, and what are some of the benefits and risks of having relationships with artificial intelligence agents? In the next episodes in this series, you'll hear all about the research and news on companion chatbo...

This is Our Lives With Bots, the show where we ask important, timely questions about what it means to live with our bot counterparts. From time to time, we also dive deep into what an AI future might look like for us. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we spiral, but we always go deep. Rose and Angy are psychologists with degrees in psychology, artificial intelligence, and ethics. They have conducted r...