Nilay Patel

Are you worried about that at all?

Well, the door has been open since Tamagotchi.

I think there's a pretty big step difference between a Tamagotchi.

My daughter, as a Tamagotchi, never like, I'm worried that this thing is alive.

Right.

The Tamagotchi has not driven anyone into psychosis.

This is very much what I mean by...

I react to it differently when it's just a concept and it opens the door to these conversations versus you are going to sell this thing to people.

And I think when you sell it to people, the responsibility skyrockets.

We've all looked at what's happened with open AI models over the last year or so.

People have fallen in love with them.

Famously, my friend Kevin Roos was proposed to on the front page of the New York Times by ChatGPT.

No, that was Bing.

People are having relationships with these products.

They're being driven to very negative outcomes Do you think that you have to do something else to make sure that doesn't happen with Ava who will be?

Represented in human-like form on your desk like the opportunity to have a relationship is gonna change right right And I from what I have been told from our reporters, you know razor people are saying we don't want this to be a companion in that way and

But OpenAI said that about Chachapy too, and yet here we are.

I understand all this, but you're taking the money, right?

You're taking the pre-orders.

Why take the pre-orders if you don't think you're ready?