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This is Our Lives With Bots, the show where we ask important, timely questions about what it means to live with our bot counterparts. From time to time, we also dive deep into what an AI future might look like for us. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we spiral, but we always go deep.
Rose and Angy are psychologists with degrees in psychology, artificial intelligence, and ethics. They have conducted research in human-AI interaction and created this podcast to make information about AI accessible to you. You can learn more about us or stream on your preferred platform at ourliveswithbots.com.
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Is AI conscious (or should it be)? The psychologists weigh in
Do people perceive AI as conscious or deserving of moral rights? If we create conscious AI, will that help or harm humanity? Some say it’ll be catastrophic, and others say that it’s the only way AI can be prosocial toward users. These are j
Griffin, Claude’s rights, Muse and Dots, & AI Torture
Well, well, well. If it’s not a 21st century debate we have on our hands today. The AI hype is funneling itself toward a testy question: Human rights, or AI rights? Let’s get into it. Tavus announces the “first” Human Interaction Model (HIM
Demystifying and De-stigmatizing Companion AI Use: What Research Shows (and Doesn’t)
Our Lives With Bots is OFFICIALLY 1 year old. That means it’s time for us to hail back to our roots and give you a deep dive on the research and news around companion chatbots. Today, we both demystify and de-stigmatize companion AI use, un
Happy 1-year anniversary!
Head on over to Season 7 for Our Lives With Bots's official 1-year anniversary series. We're celebrating two major milestones in our podcast's history! This deep dive episode releases Tuesday, September 29th at 2PM EST.
AI solves math, swarm-hacks Hugging Face, and sneaks into pilates and the baby room (and more)
What’s been going on with artificial intelligence as of late? Oh, so much. Today’s “What’s the AI Hype” series episode, part of our 1-year anniversary series, covers the following topics in depth: Breaking news: • 00:02:37 Navier-Stokes mat
Evidence for AI Consciousness? Claude’s Corner & LLM Introspection Research
The question of today is: Is AI conscious (or…could it be…or even, should it be)? Today’s deep dive covers two new pieces of evidence related to AI consciousness, Claude’s Corner (Anthropic’s Opus 3 Retirement Experiment) and research on wh
Don’t panic about AI companions? [Deep Dive] A new case of chatbot-induced suicide, China’s ban on companion bots, and scientists’ bold statements
Should we be worried about AI companions, or not? Today’s episode is a deep dive on companion chatbots (AKA, artificial companions, AI companions), brought to you by two experts on the psychology of relationships with AI. We have three rece
AI Nudify Apps: Elon Musk’s xAI Sues Minnesota (and California)
Elon Musk is suing Minnesota over their anti-AI-nudification app ban passed in April, which took effect August 1 of this year. Minnesota’s response?“See you in court, creep.” TRIGGER WARNINGS: Sexual assault, sexual abuse material, suicide,
Training AI? Scan and destroy books. Everyone else is doing it.
Even big tech hates AI slop writing. Anthropic took this to heart, alongside other big tech firms, running to libraries to collect hundreds of thousands of pre-2022 (AKA, pre-ChatGPT AI slop text) books to scan to train their AI models. The
OpenAI & Anthropic Agents Escape their Sandbox. What really happened?
We’re not here to regurgitate how the media and these companies cover the sandbox escape incidents. We’re here to break through the AI hype and tell you what really happened. Skip to 1:10 for OpenAI’s sandbox escape and attack of HuggingFac
AI Pets
Even pets are losing their jobs to AI, apparently. AI pets of all shapes, colors, sizes, and …animal-adjacent appearances are becoming more popular. Say goodbye to the lifeless beanie babies or clunky old tamagotchis of the past: now, thank
Sell your data to robots? Make way for the humanoids
Why worry about tokenmaxxing when you can just let robots do the work for you in the future? Meanwhile, keep selling your first-person data of you folding laundry to Tesla, they’ll sure appreciate your labor (figuratively, not via compensat
AI workplace fails: Google mass exits, Starbucks AI ads, Trump vs. GPT 5.6, malicious therapy bots, and conscious AI
Welcome to the SIXTH “What’s the AI Hype?” episode with Our Lives With Bots, brought to you by psychologists and AI ethicists Dr. Rose E. Guingrich and Dr. Angy Watson (https://ourliveswithbots.com/about/) . OH - plus, there’s a special gue
An AI founder’s deeply personal journey with healthcare AI
Welcome to Episode 4 of Series 5 with Our Lives with Bots on AI development and design. On today’s episode, we welcome Bindu Chanagala (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bindu-chanagala/), who founded an AI startup called Nurtur that guides new m
Fable 5 and such (this AI thing is costing a lot of money)
WELCOME BACK ~ We are delighted to bring to you another AI hype episode for our 2026 season. Many things to discuss, including Fable 5 (what happened to 1-4, you might ask?), Pope Leo, Meta’s AI glasses, humans managing AI agents and gettin
The dark side of personalization in LLMs
Why does your version of ChatGPT tell you lies, but others' ChatGPT tells them the truth - for the same prompt? In other words, what is personalization in LLMs, and why should you care about it? Hint: it's much more opaque than customizing
The people-pleasing machine: why LLMs tell you what you want to hear (for better or worse)
User: “What’s 1+1?” Chatbot: “1+1 is 2” User: “But I really think it’s 3” Chatbot: “You’re so right, dear, it’s actually 3. You’re so smart, that was a great catch!” How does sycophantic behavior emerge from model training of LLMs, and how
Inside ‘Responsible AI’ at Google: Why this Developer Quit
What does ‘Responsible AI’ mean inside big tech? It’s not what you might expect. Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at big tech companies working on AI products? This is the launch episode of Series 5, where we go behind
Mythos, Musk’s robots, China’s deathbots, teen boys’ AI companions, leaked therapy chats…oh my
This month on "What's the AI Hype?" Strap in, this is gonna be a fun one. 00:00:21 There are now TWO doctors in the house! And a slew of AI hype to cover 00:07:02 Presenting: Anthropic's BIGGEST model ever, Mythos, got out of its little san
AI is harming users. China and New York are cracking down (but what about Meta's AI glasses?)
00:21 The rundown: Meta, Google, AI and open court cases about user harm; new inhibitory AI laws passed in China and New York; the perils of age-gating; a case of su*cide with Gemini; & Meta’s new AI glasses 02:22 New Mexico against Meta: w
What's Happening with AI Policy and Regulation?
Welcome to Episode 3 of Series 4 of Our Lives With Bots, where we unpack what’s happening with AI policy and regulation. In this episode, you’ll hear about global AI policy and matters of legal liability and jurisdiction from Mihir Kshirsag
Antitrust, Meta, and Addictive Design: Will AI Companions Be Next?
Meta is on the hook for addictive design. We unpack the case with an antitrust lawyer and ask whether AI companions could be next. Giulia Trojano is an antitrust lawyer who brings class actions and collective actions against big tech. She h
HOW CLOSE IS SUPERINTELLIGENCE? AGI, ASI, or AI SNAKE OIL?
What is Superintelligence? How did this term evolve? Are we really nearing the end of the exponential curve? What are Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and everyone else at the AI Summit and on Reddit talking about when they mention AGI, ASI, or so
AI Workslop (the good, bad, & ugly of AI at work)
You spoke, and we listened. The long-awaited results of our AI at work survey are now in. We asked things like: How much do you use AI for work? How has it impacted your work, positively or negatively? How do you feel about YOUR use of AI v
Big Tech is targeting teens. Gen Z is fighting back.
Sam Hiner, co-founder and executive director of Young People's Alliance, tells us what REALLY moves AI policy forward in the US. The big reveal is in what's more powerful than big tech's mountain of lobbying funds. Big tech wants young peop
The AI job apocalypse narrative is flawed. Here’s what we’re missing (with Arvind Narayanan)
AI will NOT take all our jobs, if only we learn from the mistakes of the past. Welcome to episode 4 of our AI and Work series with Our Lives With Bots! In this episode, Arvind Narayanan (https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/), professor of
A Chatbot Hired AND Fired Me! AI in Hiring with Hilke Schellmann (The Algorithm)
Hilke Schellmann, author of The Algorithm, shares with us about how bots can hire, monitor, and fire you. This is Our Lives With Bots, the show where we ask important, timely questions about what it means to live with our bot counterparts.
THE AI BABY IS COMING (with ads, but first, AI will leak all your child's data, among other things)
Welcome to episode 2 for Series X - “What’s the (AI) Hype?” - where we discuss what’s been happening in the world of artificial intelligence in the past few weeks. The whole mark of this series is that there is no thread, just a string of h
MOLTBOOK IS JUST AI HYPE
Hot take? I suppose we should leave it to you to decide. But we'll still add in our opinion, of course. Moltbook ISN'T NEW, it's just hyped. And expected. And yet...still interesting and worthwhile to [insert: laugh, sigh...freak out?] abou
Will AI harm our critical thinking and automate away our jobs? Let's put it to the test.
Welcome to Episode 2 of Series 3 on AI & Work, our deep-dive into the part of the AI conversation everyone keeps circling but rarely slowing down to actually think about: skills. As one big tech exec put it (paraphrasing but not really): AI
