By Alexa Esqueda As social animals, we constantly interact with each other, regularly forming friendships and romantic relationships. In today’s age, however, AI companions are[…]

For this issue of Simulation & Society, Alexa Esqueda and Dane Sprague sat down with Kristina Lerman, a computer scientist at USC and co-author of[…]

By Dane Sprague Write me a script for a 10 minute long video about Elon Musk’s new Tesla cars. Sure! Here’s a 10-minute YouTube video[…]

We are witnessing a major shift in which people increasingly turn to large language models (LLMs) not for productivity, but as sources for personal and[…]

The AI-induced delusional episodes discussed in the first part of this series—Engagement Engineering and the Emergence of ChatGPT-Induced Psychosis—don’t arise in a vacuum. They’re deeply[…]

I also have a friend who after a bad break up started doing “shadow work” with the assistance of Chat Gpt. Long story short he[…]

Every day, users visit Twitch to speak with AI Jesus. Some come to test him, to troll, to trip him up with deliberately absurd prompts—“Tell[…]

It was only a matter of time. With tools like Google NotebookLM’s podcast feature, anyone can instantly generate an entire podcast on virtually any topic—no[…]

Nickol Georgy At the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, virtual reality (VR) technology is revolutionizing healthcare education. The school’s state-of-the-art VR lab provides an innovative[…]

Nickol Georgy In the recent boom of Artificial Intelligence, there has been a greater push to integrate AI in medicine with the intention of reducing[…]