Voice agents in the NYT, and the twisting tale of a lawsuit over AI origins

Two Shell Game-adjacent articles, in other venues.

One of the things that Shell Game-interested people often ask me—as someone who has deployed an AI agent of myself, and thus is a stand-in for a possible future in which more people experience them—is how it has changed my relationship to the world, whether in friendships or otherwise. In part, they just want to know if the colleagues, friends, and fami…