When The Terminator and RoboCop hit theaters in the 1980s, Hollywood imagined artificial intelligence (AI) as an existential threat—machines that would dominate, surveil, and destroy us. Four decades ...

Shankland's award-winning interdisciplinary book examines our dominance of and affection for animals and how empathy toward ...

All of my relationships live, at least in part, in my phone, where they are forced to share space with everything else that happens there. Lately, the feeling creeping up on me is that the pieces of ...

AI chatbots are no longer just business tools. A growing number of artificial intelligence adopters consider them friends, confidants, and even romantic partners. As AI becomes integrated into social ...

Artificial intelligence has revolutionized everything from health care to art. It's now filling voids in some personal lives as AI chatbots are becoming friends, therapists and even romantic partners.

Bree McEwan, a professor in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at the University of Toronto-Mississauga and founder of the Questioning Reality Conference, visited the ...