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AI robot dolls charm their way into nursing the elderly

27 August 2025 at 05:00
In her tiny sunlit Seoul apartment, Kim Jeong-ran sat on her bed, talking affectionately to a cloth doll perched on her lap.  “Hyodol, you’re my lovely granddaughter,” the 81-year-old said,...

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Kim Jeong-ran, 81, speaks with her Hyodol, an AI-equipped companion robot, at her home in Gungdong, Guro-gu, Seoul, South Korea, Jul 23, 2025.

Why AI advancement doesn’t have to come at the expense of marginalized workers

19 May 2025 at 05:00
In her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, Karen Hao writes about the Silicon Valley firms competing to be the first to reach artificial...

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AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 5: Content moderators work at a Facebook office in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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