Wendy M. Grossman
This week's net.wars, "Intimacy capitalism", goes to the We Robot 2026 workshop day, and finds new things to worry about: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/04/24/intimacy-capitalism/ #NetWars #WeRobot #AI #robots
Intimacy capitalism

Many non-human characteristics make AI attractive, Sue-Anne Teo said to open this year's We Robot: endless patience, long and detailed memory, and sycophancy. I

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Show threadEvan HahnApr 24
@wendyg Small thing I noticed: your link to Peppers is invalid. (Hope this helps and is not an annoying nitpick!)
Show threadWendy M. GrossmanApr 24
@EvanHahn Thanks. I'll fix it...don't know what went wrong there.