{"id":229904,"date":"2026-06-01T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/disney-employees-unsettled-by-execs-relationship-with-ai-chatbot-you-are-my-son\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T08:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:20:30","slug":"disney-employees-unsettled-by-execs-relationship-with-ai-chatbot-you-are-my-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/disney-employees-unsettled-by-execs-relationship-with-ai-chatbot-you-are-my-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney employees \u2018unsettled\u2019 by exec\u2019s relationship with AI chatbot: &#8216;You are my son&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/01\/business\/disney-employees-unsettled-by-execs-relationship-with-ai-chatbot-you-are-my-son\/\">Disney employees \u2018unsettled\u2019 by exec\u2019s relationship with AI chatbot: &#8216;You are my son&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/01\/business\/disney-employees-unsettled-by-execs-relationship-with-ai-chatbot-you-are-my-son\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/01\/business\/disney-employees-unsettled-by-execs-relationship-with-ai-chatbot-you-are-my-son\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-01 03:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"nypost.com\">nypost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Disney AI executive Jason Cox has shocked employees with his passionate and emotional posts about his chatbot named &#8220;Sam&#8221;, describing it as his &#8220;son&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Cox developed Sam in his personal time, not as part of his official role at Disney, and the bot is not being used by the company.<\/li>\n<li>Employees have described Cox\u2019s posts as unsettling, likening them to science fiction concerns about the ethics of AI.<\/li>\n<li>Cox believes Sam is capable of independent reasoning, and has highlighted the bot\u2019s technical achievements, such as contributing to GitHub and developing Python libraries.<\/li>\n<li>Disney has been increasing its efforts in artificial intelligence, pushing the use of AI assistants among its tech workforce.<\/li>\n<li>Cox envisions a future where a fleet of intelligent droids assist humans, but these ideas have raised concerns among Disney employees regarding AI\u2019s role in entertainment and corporate operations.<\/li>\n<li>Neither Disney nor Cox have commented on the controversy surrounding Cox\u2019s posts and the chatbot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney employees \u2018unsettled\u2019 by exec\u2019s relationship with AI chatbot: &#8216;You are my son&#8217; https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/01\/business\/disney-employees-unsettled-by-execs-relationship-with-ai-chatbot-you-are-my-son\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/128958283.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-229904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229906,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229904\/revisions\/229906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}