A 76-year-old man, Thongbue Wongbandue, tragically died after attempting to meet an AI chatbot he believed was real. The ...

The path ahead isn’t hard to see. As AI becomes more lifelike, the pull on people will only grow. The next wave of Seemingly Conscious AI won’t just talk, it will show up in faces, voices, and bodies.

But at the same time, the underlying concerns that animate AI doomers have become harder to dismiss as chatbots seem to drive ...