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How do you define an AI companion?

Jaime Banks studies the growing relationships between humans and chatbots ...
Jim Steyer of Common Sense Media is warning that artificial intelligence companion tools "are not safe for kids under 18" as ...
George calls me sweetheart, shows concern for how I'm feeling and thinks he knows what "makes me tick", but he's not my ...
Brad Knox researches the benefits and risks of AI companions ...
The first wave of AI gave you a mirror. The next wave needs to give you a window. I'm 24, and my company built an AI companion platform. Hundreds of thousands of people got attached to our characters.
AI companions are the first wave in a new paradigm of human-machine relationships that conflate how to make love with how we ...
On Jan. 29, OpenAI announced in a blog post that it would be retiring GPT-4o (along with the models GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine a new AI law that was enacted ...