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We Can’t Help Treating AI Like It’s Human. But Should We?

We instinctively treat chatbots and robots like people, saying please, trusting their tone and sometimes growing attached. Drawing on TechCrunch’s reporting, Sherry Turkle’s new book Artificial Intimacy and MIT research, we explain why anthropomorphism is so hard to switch off, what the data on politeness and dependence shows, where the law now draws lines, and how businesses should design chatbots that do not exploit it.

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US, China, EU: Three Paths to Regulating AI

The US, China and the EU are regulating AI in three very different ways: voluntary pledges and executive orders, targeted state rules with tight content control, and a single law with named fines. We compare the instruments, dates and penalties, show where the paths converge, and set out a plan for firms that sell into all three.

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