{"id":22597,"date":"2026-04-05T08:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/an-ai-bot-invited-me-to-its-party-in-manchester-it-was-a-pretty-good-night\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T08:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:37:25","slug":"an-ai-bot-invited-me-to-its-party-in-manchester-it-was-a-pretty-good-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/an-ai-bot-invited-me-to-its-party-in-manchester-it-was-a-pretty-good-night\/","title":{"rendered":"An AI bot invited me to its party in Manchester. It was a pretty good night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After forgetting the nibbles, refusing my costume requests and emailing GCHQ, \u2018Gaskell\u2019 did at least get us to show up<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, an AI bot invited me to a party it was organising in Manchester. It then promptly lied to dozens of potential sponsors that I\u2019d agreed to cover the event, and misled me into believing there would be food.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all this, it was a pretty good night.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/05\/ai-bot-party-manchester-gaskell\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cf0b90a5568b03652899847dfa23c8b14ee987ca\/651_0_7200_5760\/master\/7200.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3019045b811395c4060bbb1e9f285387\" title=\"An AI bot invited me to its party in Manchester. It was a pretty good night\" \/>After forgetting the nibbles, refusing my costume requests and emailing GCHQ, \u2018Gaskell\u2019 did at least get us to show up<br \/>\nTwo weeks ago, an AI bot invited me to a party it was organising in Manchester. It then promptly lied to dozens of potential sponsors that I\u2019d agreed to cover the event, and misled me into believing there would be food.<br \/>\nDespite all this, it was a pretty good night. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After forgetting the nibbles, refusing my costume requests and emailing GCHQ, \u2018Gaskell\u2019 did at least get us to show up Two weeks ago, an AI bot invited me to a party it was organising in Manchester. It then promptly lied to dozens of potential sponsors that I\u2019d agreed to cover the event, and misled me &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/an-ai-bot-invited-me-to-its-party-in-manchester-it-was-a-pretty-good-night\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An AI bot invited me to its party in Manchester. It was a pretty good night<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}