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Life With AI: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3 Years Into the Era of AI for Everyone, I Take Stock of Its Impact on Me
Jan 6
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David Berreby
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What to Make of AI Re-Creations of the Dead
You Can't Understand Digital Ghosts Until You've Met One
Nov 30, 2025
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David Berreby
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What Explains 'Nerd Tunnel Vision' About Epstein?
It wasn't just the money that kept top scientists in his orbit
Nov 18, 2025
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David Berreby
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Will AI Companions Be Bad for Society?
Nobody knows for sure, but it's possible.
Nov 13, 2025
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David Berreby
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The AI Revolution Asks Us: What Kind of People Do We Want to Be?
Deciding You Can Skip This Question Is Tempting, But It’s a Dead End
Oct 31, 2025
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David Berreby
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Notes on the Coming AI-Companion Maybe-Crisis
With Millions Using AIs as Ersatz Friends, Therapists, Romantic Partners, or Sidekicks, a Backlash Is Forming
Sep 25, 2025
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David Berreby
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Can Humanity Break Up With Its 'Automatic Sweetheart'?
Making AI Seem Less Human Is a Good Idea. But We May Not Want It That Way
Sep 8, 2025
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David Berreby
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What Are People Bashing When They Bash A Robot?
Just a machine? Capitalist overlords? Their own feelings? It's complicated.
Aug 24, 2025
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David Berreby
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To Hell With the Ant. Long Live the Grasshopper
It's not AI or other tech that makes people less conscientious. It's life in 2025.
Aug 19, 2025
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David Berreby
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One Generation's Technological Vice is A Later One's Virtue
Looks Like AI Adoption Will Repeat This Familiar Pattern
Aug 10, 2025
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David Berreby
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More on the Need for Inhuman AI
Why Yoshua Bengio, the machine-learning pioneer, wants to make AI less like us
Jun 3, 2025
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David Berreby
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What Does a Humanoid Robot Do? I Asked a Humanoid Robot
Here's what it answered.
May 22, 2025
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David Berreby
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