Millions of people now have AI companions, offering everything from emotional support to NSFW (“not safe for work”) chat. And many are finding that these virtual relationships are an improvement on the real thing.

Spotting cancer with computer vision. Pulling together weather data for better predictions. Solving long-running research quandaries such as protein folding. These are useful tasks for AI that benefit

AI can be brilliant when put to proper use, but it also has some major downsides

Many of us now ask AI all sorts of questions about our health. Dr C says it can help but, in certain situations, it could be dangerous

AI is now reaching into every corner of our lives. We can –and must–very carefully choose how we engage with it

It’s safe to say our audience across X, Discord and Facebook were split when we asked whether they would like a robot helper. Let’s start with the naysayers. “By all means, if you want to forgo the la