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Increasingly, men are turning to AI for advice about relationships, loss, regret and overwhelm. Having observed hundreds of ...

In the second hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on July 8, 2025, we discuss the growing trend of human/AI relationships and what, if any, boundaries should be put in place.

The chatbots’ appeal to kids, especially teens, is obvious. Unlike human friends, these AI companions will think all your jokes are funny. They’re programmed to be endlessly patient and to validate ...

Centaur, an AI model trained on 10 million decisions, learns to simulate human thinking, even in unfamiliar situations.

The course builds on my 2018 class, Art and Geometry, which I co-taught with local artists. The course explored Picasso’s cubism, which depicted reality as fractured from multiple perspectives; it ...

Artificial Intelligence being developed at Indiana University can be used in many ways, one of which is creating digital ...