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The menace of the machine that’s ‘happy to help’

The Globe and Mail · August 21, 2026 at 6:00 a.m.

The menace of the machine that’s ‘happy to help’

Large-language model chatbots blur the boundaries between human relationship and simulation in a way that is new and frightening

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