GAID aligns with established behavioral addiction criteria. Affected individuals struggle to limit AI interaction despite negative consequences. Attempts to reduce usage may lead to withdrawal symptoms such as anxiety, irritability, or restlessness. www.sciencedirect.com/scien…
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Dr. Angelica Lim
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Researcher with public evidence across Agents & robotics, AI business, AI research.
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Computing Science prof in multimodal embodied AI, emotion, interaction at SFU in Vancouver 🇨🇦🇵🇭 Director of the Rosie Lab www.rosielab.ca Canada CIFAR AI Chair. Previously at SoftBank Robotics 🤖 FR/JP
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I built an AI tool that negotiated hotel prices for me. One hotel suspected it was AI, but it got me a better deal. businessinsider.com
OpenAI abandons yet another side quest: ChatGPT's erotic mode | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
E3: AI Psychosis | Understood: Artificial Intimacy | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen cbc.ca
Announcing Interactivity Research Grants thinkingmachines.ai
Seeking Empathy in the Age of AI psychologicalscience.org
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'Like my lover': Chinese users bid farewell to AI companions rnz.co.nz
Government of Canada introduces legislation to make social media services and AI chatbots safer for children canada.ca
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Deploying an agent to interact with people and lie about its machine nature should be illegal. www.businessinsider.com/ai-agent-cal...
Afaik this is old news and OpenAI no longer intend to release this? I recall they decided to focus on assistant use cases (thank goodness). techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/o...
AI chatbots are being linked to teen suicides, and Vancouver schools just rolled them out to Gr. 9-12 students two days ago. 💔 A must-listen podcast on AI psychosis and what we're risking. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
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APS (@psychscience.bsky.social) Observer coverage of recent research and perspectives on AI empathy: www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... Including comments from me relating to my recent PoPS article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Dr. Angelica Lim reposted
APS (@psychscience.bsky.social) Observer coverage of recent research and perspectives on AI empathy: www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... Including comments from me relating to my recent PoPS article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
No to companion AI, yes to natural communication when performing tasks 👍 'Services that "do not involve ongoing emotional interaction" such as customer service, work assistants or study aids are not subject to the measures.' www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/7...
Excellent!! Canada announced legislation on AI chatbots: "Social media platforms and AI chatbots are designed to capture attention. They... have become a source of ... a range of other mental health challenges for many young Canadians." www.canada.ca/en/canadian-...
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Fantastic talk by @shirleybwang.bsky.social at #APS26BCN on computational modeling of suicide risk. One chilling aspect is the component of not being afraid to die. I am worried about chatbots and their effect on this piece.
Heading to Barcelona for @psychscience.bsky.social - our first time at APS! We'll be presenting Chehre, a new dynamic facial expression dataset based on 40 different emojis 😇 mapped to AI faces. Thanks to over 1000 participants, we collected 11K expressions and 20+ label ratings for 2,111 of them.
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