Episode 24
Love in the time of large language models
☕ Weekly AI Tea Time
A pop-up wine bar in NYC let people “go on dates” with AI companions
Romance scams driven by AI are spiking
AI promises to fix swipe fatigue; nothing says romance like outsourced flirting
OpenAI ads are officially a thing
Palantir’s week got awkward like accidentally liking your ex’s photo from 2017
🌟 AI Power moves by Her
Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Arati Prabhakar, is operating at the highest level of AI governance.
While tech founders debate on podcasts, Prabhakar is helping shape how AI is regulated, deployed, and safeguarded across the United States. From executive orders to global AI frameworks, she’s influencing how powerful systems are developed and controlled.
She isn’t building the models.
She’s building the guardrails.
🧠 AI word of the Week: Anthropomorphism
The tendency to attribute human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human things.
Used in a sentence: AI doesn’t fall in love, we just anthropomorphize it.
🫣 The Cringe Files:
OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot right before Valentine’s
Deepfakes aren’t just in politics anymore, now they’re in your DMs
“Chatfishing” is the new ghosting