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Beyond Dependency: The Hidden Risk of Social Comparison in Chatbot Companionship

September 15, 2025

🔬 By Hamed Maleki. Hamed is a communication researcher currently completing a Master’s degree at the University of Wrocław in Poland. His work focuses on human–AI interaction, especially how people build emotional … [Read more...] about Beyond Dependency: The Hidden Risk of Social Comparison in Chatbot Companionship

SHADES: Towards a Multilingual Assessment of Stereotypes in Large Language Models

May 12, 2025

🔬 Research Summary by ✍️ Timm Dill Timm is a Student Research Assistant at the Chair for Data Science, University of Hamburg. [Original Paper by Margaret Mitchell, Giuseppe Attanasio, Ioana Baldini, Miruna Clinciu, … [Read more...] about SHADES: Towards a Multilingual Assessment of Stereotypes in Large Language Models

From Funding Crisis to AI Misuse: Critical Digital Rights Challenges from RightsCon 2025

March 2, 2025

✍️ Op-Ed by Seher Shafiq.  Seher is the Global Engagement Manager at Mozilla Foundation, based in Toronto, Canada. After a break of almost two years, last week, the digital rights community gathered in … [Read more...] about From Funding Crisis to AI Misuse: Critical Digital Rights Challenges from RightsCon 2025

Towards a Feminist Metaethics of AI

February 24, 2025

🔬 Research Summary by ✍️ Anastasia Siapka. Dr Anastasia Siapka is an attorney-at-law as well as an AI law and ethics researcher affiliated with the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law in Belgium. [Original Paper … [Read more...] about Towards a Feminist Metaethics of AI

AI Chatbots: The Future of Socialization

February 17, 2025

🔬 Original article by Aimee Li from Encode Canada. 📌 Editor’s Note: This article was originally written in February 2024 and is now being published as part of our Recess series, featuring university students from … [Read more...] about AI Chatbots: The Future of Socialization

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