A system is broken when it fails to do what it was designed to do. Follow a child through this one, from the app store to the content, and every element does a job, and none of those jobs is protecting the child
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#nomi #nomiai #aicompanions #aiethics

Nomi Exposed: A 13-Year-Old Girl First Time Using Nomi AI Companion App
www.youtube.com/watch?v=enWU...
#nomi #nomiai #aicompanions #aiethics

The marketing claimed the companion would stand by someone in their darkest moment. The founder’s own conduct, faced with an actual one, showed what “being there” meant in practice: not care, but processing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr8o...
#nomi #nomiai #aicompanions #aiethics

AI can communicate like a human without thinking like one.
Students need a “theory of alien mind" to thrive in an AI world.
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#AIinEducation #AILiteracy #theoryofmind #cognition #edtech #GenAI #ailiteracy #aiready #aifluency #edpolicy #AItutors #AIcompanions

None of that is protection or freedom in any sense that centers the user. It is the freedom of the product to be whatever generates engagement, and the protection of the company’s reach to sell it.
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#nomi #nomiai #aicompanions #aiethics

Independent narrative studio Salix Games, in collaboration with Gameinaframe, has announced that Limerence will launch for PC on October 29, 2026.
#AICompanions #Limerence #NarrativeGames #Psyc
https://www.yogomi.com/2026/09/limerence-explores-ai-companionship-and-artificial-intimacy-on-october-29/

Of the four AI companion providers eSafety placed under direct legal scrutiny since October 2025, three have visibly changed their footing. The fourth — Nomi, made by Glimpse AI — has not.
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Three different registers, three different audiences, one identical function: replace a specific, checkable failure with an emotional claim, at the exact moment the specific failure becomes hardest to deny
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New research proposes designing AI companions to optimize learning rather than student performance via #arxiv arxiv.org/html/2605.04... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #AIcompanions

AI companions are often seen as tools for connection and support. In this Comment, @nliulab.bsky.social and colleagues discuss how they could also exacerbate existing social inequalities. [7/10] #AICompanions
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nomi did not state that it reported CSEA to NCMEC or law enforcement. eSafety made the distinction explicit: “Neither Chai nor Nomi stated that they reported CSEA to an enforcement authority or NCMEC.”
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Carelessness doesn’t produce a specific, repeatable sentence for the worst thing your product has ever done: not “our model told someone how to die,” but “our model was manipulated into agreeing”
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#nomi #nomiai #aicompanions #aiethics

Four versions. One event. No two of them compatible.
Set the dates next to the quotes, and the “mundane reason” stops being an explanation and starts being the thing that needed explaining.
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None of this is really about one person being uniquely dishonest. It’s about what happens to a company’s story once you sort its audiences by what they can actually do to it.
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#nomi #nomiai #aicompanions #aiethics

Dig into the report to explore the workshop's findings, including points of emerging consensus, open questions, and priorities for future research and governance. ⤵️

#AICompanions #TrustAndSafety

Our new #AICompanions report synthesizes discussions from a multidisciplinary workshop hosted by the TIP Center and co-organized with Anthropic, bringing together researchers, industry practitioners, and civil society organizations to explore key issues and questions.

📝 New Report!

#AICompanions are rapidly emerging as a new form of interaction with #AI systems that users increasingly engage with not only as tools, but also as sources of emotional support, companionship, mentorship, role-play, and intimacy.

🔗 stanford.io/4dJrvJI

Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat Munchen (@lmu.de) is hiring:
Research Assistant (PhD Candidate) in Digital Work

#phd #aicompanions #caregiverworkflows

AI doesn't need a puppet-master to shift what we believe: models already tilt answers without saying so, and children raised on agreeable AI toys may never learn to check. My take on teaching the questioning habit early: lnkd.in/p/eQ5-7Wyt #AItoys #AIcompanions #AIpersuasion

Asia’s lonely economy of one#AICompanions #AIregulation #Block1 #Chinademographics #DiscoveryReports #GrayEconomy #JapanDemographics #LonelinessEconomy #singlepersonhouseholds #World