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 hype debated by two psychologists/AI ethicists who love to harp on about Our Lives With Bots.
In this episode, we cover Google’s new personal intelligence, advertising in ChatGPT (but not Claude), AI attachment and empathy hacking, SuperBowl AI ads, fake jobs for AI data mills, an AI toy that leaked private conversations with kids, asking Grok for fact checks on X, Apple’s acquirement of a telepathic AI company, AI pets that patronize you…and more.
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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 at ⁠ourliveswithbots.com⁠.
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Links:
Google’s new personal intelligence (technologyreview.com/2026/01/28/1131835/what-a…)
Advertising is coming (techpolicy.press/advertising-is-coming-to-ai-i…) to ChatGPT. But not to Claude oooo (Sam Altman claps back)
AI is hacking attachment (youtube.com/watch?v=wwMAdSqOY2A) and empathy (youtube.com/watch?v=xvPQVrrlX6o) (and should not pretend to have consciousness or emotion)
AI toy Bondu exposed 50k logs of its chats (wired.com/story/an-ai-toy-exposed-50000-logs-o…) with kids to anyone with a gmail account
What happens when your process of forming beliefs is offloaded onto a chatbot? (arxiv.org/abs/2602.08754)
Anthropic’s patterns of disempowerment (anthropic.com/research/disempowerment-patterns…)
@ Grok is this true? (osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/85quw_v2)
ChatGPT launches ChatGPT Health (openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-health)
The AI pet is here (washingtonpost.com/world/2026/02/06/ai-pets-ch…) (in China)
Apple acquires Q [dot] AI (reuters.com/business/apple-acquires-audio-ai-s…), a surveillance tool
AlterEgo (alterego.io), the “near-telepathic AI”