Social robot or digital avatar, users interact with this AI technology as if it’s real
- Written by Brigitte Viljoen, Psychotherapist and Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology
Humans are interacting more than ever with artificial intelligence (AI) – from the development of the first “social robots” (a robot with a physical body programmed to interact and engage with humans) like Kismet in the 1990s to smart speakers such as Amazon’s Alexa.
But this technology is changing how humans relate with it...





