Valerie Tiberius

What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money - or work for justice? To run marathons - or sing in a choir? To have children - or travel the world? The things we care about in life - family, friendship, leisure activities, work, our moral ideals - often conflict, preventing us from doing what matters...

What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money – or work for justice? To run marathons – or sing in a choir? To have children – or travel the world? The things we care about in life – family, friendship, leisure activities, work, our moral ideals – often conflict, preventing us from doing what matters...

A human perspective on the nature of friendship in the age of artificial intelligence. Is friendship with a chatbot as good as friendship with an actual person? Is there something about human friendships that eludes simulation? If so, what? And how much will the answers to questions like these change as AI develops and becomes more convincingly like us? Artificially...