AI video game NPCs don't have nearly enough safeguards, as Stellar Cafe shows

I’m sitting in a digital cafe booth with a chatty robot when I agree to be a guest on her podcast. Microphones spring up in front of us, and the video game NPC across from me launches into an intro spiel as it prepares to ask me some softball questions about my interests. It doesn’t take more than a few minutes for things to get weird.

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