Our Lives With Bots

Welcome to our launch episode for Series X - “What’s the (AI) Hype?” - where we intermittently discuss what’s been happening in the world of artificial intelligence in the past few weeks.

Today we’ll be discussing all the AI hype that’s been thrown out into the world in the past weeks, covering new AI products, experiences, and companies (including exactly what Angy mentioned in our recording with Henry: “is there room at the restau...

Welcome to the FIRST EPISODE of our exclusive SERIES 2 on the impact of generative AI technology on children, teens, and young people. In this series, we’ll cover news and research on AI toys, the use of AI in education, and AI’s social and cognitive impacts on one of the most vulnerable subsets of AI users.

In this introductory episode, we’ll lay the foundation for future episodes on this topic. Hear our take on the ongoing court c...

Welcome to the FINALE of our exclusive Series 1 on companion chatbots, where you’ll hear from guest speaker Henry Shevlin, a philosopher/“human who studies non-human consciousness.”

We’ll cover a whole host of items, but of course, our focus will be on companion chatbots, the dangers (and benefits!) of perceiving these AI agents as humanlike, a new term coined by Henry called “anthropomimesis” (making these things humanlike) and...

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 or a death. Atay Kozlovski, an ethicist, is joining us to tell us all about his work on griefbots and the umbre...

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 going to visit a real-life ...

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 chatbots, plus hear from two guest spea...

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 research in human-AI interaction and ...