AI Companions: The Echo Chamber of Sycophancy

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[…]

Illusions of Intimacy and the Echo Chamber of One: An Interview with Kristina Lerman

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[…]

Esotericism and Exotericism in AI Art

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[…]

Large Language Models and the Therapeutic Echo Chamber

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[…]