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Madeline G. Reinecke

The UK plans to ban romantic AI chatbots for under-18s. Young people have bigger worries about AI.

Written by Madeline G. Reinecke, David Lyreskog, Kathryn B. Francis, & Ilina Singh On June 15, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer revealed the government’s intentions to ban under-16s from accessing social media sites, like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. As part of this policy, “so-called AI ‘romantic companion’ chatbots – designed to simulate sexual relationships or… Read More »The UK plans to ban romantic AI chatbots for under-18s. Young people have bigger worries about AI.

Humanizing Chatbots Is Hard To Resist — But Why?

Written by Madeline G. Reinecke (@mgreinecke) You might recall a story from a few years ago, concerning former Google software engineer Blake Lemoine. Part of Lemoine’s job was to chat with LaMDA, a large language model (LLM) in development at the time, to detect discriminatory speech. But the more Lemoine chatted with LaMDA, the more… Read More »Humanizing Chatbots Is Hard To Resist — But Why?