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The AI sexbot industry is just getting started. It brings strange new questions – and risks

By Raffaele F Ciriello, Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney

Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting personal. Chatbots are designed to imitate human interactions, and the rise of realistic voice chat is leading many users to form emotional attachments or laugh along with virtual podcast hosts.

And that’s before we get to the really intimate stuff. Research has shown that sexual roleplaying…

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