AI Ethics

Move fast and break people? Ethics, companion apps, and the case of Character.ai

Riffing off move fast and break things — the internal motto coined by Meta's Mark Zuckerberg — this paper examines the ethical dimensions of human relationships with AI companions, …

Andrew McStay

• Jun 10, 2025 • 1 min read

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The Moral Threshold of AI Companionship

Automating Empathy: Decoding Technologies that Gauge Intimate Life

Automating Empathy assesses technologies used to gauge how people are feeling. The book begins by historically situating the belief that by reading the body and its expressions one …

Andrew McStay

• Nov 22, 2023 • 1 min read

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