S3 #43 How do parasocial relationships with chatbots form? Brain-to-brain with Takuya Maeda.
Thu Jan 29 2026
References:
https://apnews.com/article/chatbot-ai-lawsuit-suicide-teen-artificial-intelligence-9d48adc572100822fdbc3c90d1456bd0
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/characterai-lawsuit-teen-suicide.html
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines/
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https://futurism.com/woman-suicide-openai-therapist
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/family-teenager-died-suicide-alleges-openais-chatgpt-blame-rcna226147
https://itif.org/publications/2025/05/21/ai-companions-risk-over-regulation-with-state-legislation/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/companion-ai-emotional-support-chatbots-1.7620087
https://nypost.com/2025/05/12/lifestyle/woman-married-to-an-ai-robot/
https://metro.co.uk/2025/07/14/married-ai-bot-human-wife-doesnt-mind-23628030/
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https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-13558-002
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922
https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology
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References: https://apnews.com/article/chatbot-ai-lawsuit-suicide-teen-artificial-intelligence-9d48adc572100822fdbc3c90d1456bd0 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/characterai-lawsuit-teen-suicide.html https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines/ https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-created-flirty-chatbots-taylor-swift-other-celebrities-without-permission-2025-08-29/ https://futurism.com/woman-suicide-openai-therapist https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/family-teenager-died-suicide-alleges-openais-chatgpt-blame-rcna226147 https://itif.org/publications/2025/05/21/ai-companions-risk-over-regulation-with-state-legislation/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/companion-ai-emotional-support-chatbots-1.7620087 https://nypost.com/2025/05/12/lifestyle/woman-married-to-an-ai-robot/ https://metro.co.uk/2025/07/14/married-ai-bot-human-wife-doesnt-mind-23628030/ https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo3618528.html https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-13558-002 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922 https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: kaleidopod@uos.de Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod