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
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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Announcing Interactivity Research Grants thinkingmachines.ai
Government of Canada introduces legislation to make social media services and AI chatbots safer for children canada.ca
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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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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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