What Microsoft’s Copilot Report Reveals—and the Missing Questions About Human Impact and What It Should Measure Next.

State and federal regulators are becoming increasingly concerned about the risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI) ...

AI companionship has long been the subject of science fiction, but today, it's a real-world thing, too, quietly reshaping ...

Ling Kong of Michelman Robinson examines AI companion laws in New York and California, discussing the states' differing ...

Pansophy is a secure personal AI assistant that runs on your Mac (or other computer). Once installed, Pansophy acts like a constant companion that can help with writing, coding, research, planning and ...

Screens are winning kids' time and attention, and now AI companions are stepping in to claim their friendships, too. Why it ...

The technology is changing the way many people meet and form relationships but some experts believe it may do more harm than ...

AI companions’ tendency to agree can create “personal echo chambers of validation” (Bernardi, 2025). One study found that in 42 percent of cases, AI companions expressed approval of social behavior ...

Millions of private messages meant to stay secret are now public. Two AI companion apps, Chattee Chat and GiMe Chat, have exposed more than 43 million intimate messages and over 600,000 images and ...

When The Terminator and RoboCop hit theaters in the 1980s, Hollywood imagined artificial intelligence (AI) as an existential threat—machines that would dominate, surveil, and destroy us. Four decades ...

Source: Cyndidyoder83 / Pixabay Part 1 of this series described the potential misbehaviors and prevalence of AI companions. Here, I address their special dangers for kids and what parents can do to ...