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Journalist covering AI for @Gizmodo. Also seen in @TheAtlantic, @WIRED, @QuantaMagazine, @sciam, @VICE, and elsewhere. Obsessed with words and music.
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Friend Is Back With a New AI Pendant, and Its Marketing Is More Depressing Than Ever

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Friend Is Back With a New AI Pendant, and Its Marketing Is More Depressing Than Ever

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AI, according to some of the technology’s more diehard proselytizers, could eventually end human loneliness. After all, who could possibly be lonely when they have 24/7 access to a chatbot that knows their most intimate hopes, fears, desires, and aversions? Many people, however, find that a dubious—if not downright offensive—idea. That was memorably illustrated when a marketing campaign launched last year by a company called Friend attracted widespread mockery and vandalism.
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Jair Bolsonaro’s AI Clone Is Already Causing Trouble in Brazil’s Election

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