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Be Nice to Your Chatbot

It couldn’t hurt, and it might help

October 21, 2026

Workers Who Fear AI May be More Prone to Slacking Off

“Jobs apocalypse” or not, threats have consequences

October 16, 2026

Our Messy Cyborg Past and Future

Mike Jay, author of “Wireheads,” on the murky borderlands where the science and fiction of mind control meet

October 14, 2026

Mere Minutes With AI Causes a Sharp Drop in Persistence

How much cognitive offloading is too much?

October 12, 2026

A Recipe to Stop AI from Going Rogue

This formula aims to prevent LLMs from doing things that endanger humans

October 8, 2026

Creating Fake People is a Terrible Idea

So why is a company pursuing digital avatars with such gusto?

October 7, 2026

Human Vision Has Quirks That AI Can’t Match

Your robot butler can’t do a Magic Eye poster… yet

October 6, 2026