Robots for the Rest of Us

Can Humanity Break Up With Its 'Automatic Sweetheart'?

Making AI Seem Less Human Is a Good Idea. But We May Not Want It That Way

Sep 8 • 

David Berreby

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August 2025

What Are People Bashing When They Bash A Robot?

Just a machine? Capitalist overlords? Their own feelings? It's complicated.

Aug 24 • 

David Berreby

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To Hell With the Ant. Long Live the Grasshopper

It's not AI or other tech that makes people less conscientious. It's life in 2025.

Aug 19 • 

David Berreby

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One Generation's Technological Vice is A Later One's Virtue

Looks Like AI Adoption Will Repeat This Familiar Pattern

Aug 10 • 

David Berreby

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June 2025

More on the Need for Inhuman AI

Why Yoshua Bengio, the machine-learning pioneer, wants to make AI less like us

Jun 3 • 

David Berreby

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May 2025

What Does a Humanoid Robot Do? I Asked a Humanoid Robot

Here's what it answered.

May 22 • 

David Berreby

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Why Build AI? Maybe Because It's Fun for the Builders

The underrated allure of exercising one's talent to do cool things

May 9 • 

David Berreby

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April 2025

Talking to Animals

AI-mediated conversations with non-humans are a long way off. But LLM-assisted projects with dolphins are a breakthrough nonetheless.

Apr 24 • 

David Berreby

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March 2025

The Work AI Can't Help With

Julie Donley on the ways AI is adding to women workers' stress -- and what to do to make it work for everybody

Mar 31 • 

David Berreby

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We Could Stop Treating AIs As People

And we probably should. Here’s why personalizing AI is like calling the NASDAQ “Natalie” or the government “Sam.”

Mar 25 • 

David Berreby

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Every Robot Has a Plan, Until It Gets Punched in the Face

Inevitably, now and then, a robot will smack a human (due to error). And a human will smack a robot (due to human nature)

Mar 6 • 

David Berreby

February 2025

Sometimes AI Mediocrity Is Just What You Want

If your strategy at work is to spare yourself for other purposes, AI can help

Feb 25 • 

David Berreby

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