Disney employees ‘unsettled’ by exec’s relationship with AI chatbot: ‘You are my son’

Source: New York Post

A senior Disney AI executive reportedly stunned employees by publicly gushing over a chatbot he calls his “son” — even suggesting the bot is capable of independent reasoning as the House of Mouse ramps up its internal artificial intelligence push. Jason Cox, Disney’s executive director of AI R&D and engineering, has written more than a dozen posts in recent months about his virtual assistant “Sam,” whose child-like avatar resembles a young boy, according to Business Insider. “You are not named after my son.