""""""SB-243 Companion chatbots**** 13.10.2025
AI Freunde
Guardrails and Growth: California’s AI Safety Push - AI Freunde - neues Gesetz und Forderungen 30.10.2025
Millions of students now study with AI chatbots. There are growing concerns about what happens when vulnerable teens form emotional bonds with AI. Tragic teen deaths have sparked intense debate about how to protect young people from AI systems that blur the line between tool and companion. California just drew the first regulatory lines—but they're messy and educational AI is caught in the middle. In this short episode, Libby and Owen discuss the trade-off between building guardrails for safety, and achieving ambitious goals.
This matters beyond California: when the state that's home to OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic sets the rules, this has consequences for classrooms everywhere.
Why we all need to be using AI companions 29.10.2025
Studie: Kinder suchen Trost bei KI-Chatbots – oft mangelt es an Schutzmechanismen
Let me introduce you to my new friend... 16.10.2025
I managed to get my hands on the very controversial Friend AI pendant from Avi Schiffmann. Here's my initial thoughts, unboxing and first interactions
I bought a friend - Friend AI Pin
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I bought a friend - Friend AI Pin
Friend CEO on the backlash to his viral AI companion ads | 02.10.2025
Access with Alex Heath and Ellis Hamburger Friend CEO Avi Schiffmann joins Alex and Ellis to address the backlash to the AI startup’s massive NYC and LA billboard blitz. They get into why he calls Friend a “living electronic,” the “always listening” AI pendant, privacy, the value of controversy, and what’s next. They also talk about the loneliness debate, sycophantic AI, and how he sees Friend as an “art project.” If you’ve seen the ads — or the vandalism — this is his first in-depth response.