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Robots can offer relationships with humans by pairing personality data with algorithms technology combined with deep machine learning. (Getty)

Lori Andrews: People are turning to AI chatbots for companionship. Is this robot love risky?

January 16, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

What does the trend in using artificial intelligence for companionship and romantic love mean for human society?

Career Barbie in 2019 was available as a judge.

Lori Andrews: How my Barbie dolls led me to become a lawyer

July 21, 2023 at 10:28 a.m.

Can dolls change your life? Barbie and Ken changed mine. I wouldn't be a lawyer if it weren't for them. When I was 7 years old, Barbie was my first...

Elinor Otto, the last of the original "Rosie the Riveters," jokes with retired Air Force Lt. Col. Richard E. Cole, the last surviving Doolittle Raider, during pictures with 60 other World War II veterans at the World War II 75th Anniversary Remembrance Banquet held at the Emerald Coast Convention Center in Fort Walton Beach Fla., Friday, April 7, 2017.

When I saw a real-life superhero at the airport: Rosie the Riveter

May 11, 2019 at 4:14 a.m.

Returning to Chicago recently, I entered Los Angeles International Airport to an announcement that a celebrity was about to land. Prepared for an actor from some superhero franchise, I was...

Use a health or medical app? Your data is rarely private

May 11, 2019 at 3:31 a.m.

Have you ever researched the side effects of a medication online, sent an email to a relative about your health, "liked" a health care organization on your Facebook page or...

Protecting your privacy from Windows 10

May 11, 2019 at 2:53 a.m.

Microsoft expects that a billion people will be using Windows 10 by 2017. But for privacy advocates, receiving a device with Windows 10 this Christmas may be the equivalent of...

Hello Barbie, goodbye privacy

May 11, 2019 at 2:48 a.m.

When I was growing up, Barbie was the first doll you didn't have to mother. Instead of a needy infant, Barbie was a career woman. She could be an astronaut,...

Illinois legislators adopted Senate Bill 1833, which requires entities that collect online data about consumers to post their privacy policies.

Gov. Rauner, protect our digital privacy

May 16, 2019 at 3:33 a.m.

If you rented a laptop, would you want to know that the salesperson could turn on the camera and secretly take photos of you in your bedroom? If your 10-year-old...

This Christmas or Hanukkah, ask Congress for Internet privacy laws

May 11, 2019 at 2:00 a.m.

In the traditional holiday story, a man in a red velvet suit sneaks into our houses in the middle of the night. We'd call 911 if that actually happened. But...

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