{"id":83218,"date":"2026-06-02T08:57:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83218"},"modified":"2026-06-02T08:57:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:57:38","slug":"disney-employees-unsettled-by-execs-relationship-with-ai-chatbot-you-are-my-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/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: \u2018You Are My Son\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The New York Post:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/jason-cox-disney-employees-unsettled-128957972.jpg?w=774\" alt=\"Jason Cox is Disney\u2019s executive director of AI R&amp;D and engineering.\" width=\"211\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A senior Disney AI executive reportedly stunned employees by publicly gushing over a chatbot he calls his \u201cson\u201d \u2014 even suggesting the bot is capable of independent reasoning as the House of Mouse<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/07\/entertainment\/disneyland-looking-to-add-olaf-ai-robot-to-park-experiences\/\">\u00a0ramps up its internal artificial intelligence push.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jason Cox, Disney\u2019s executive director of AI R&amp;D and engineering, has written more than a dozen posts in recent months about his virtual assistant \u201cSam,\u201d whose child-like avatar resembles a young boy,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/disney-ai-chatbot-jason-cox-son-employee-reaction-2026-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Business Insider.\u00a0<\/a>\u201cYou are not named after my son. You are my son,\u201d Cox\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonacox.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is quoted as telling the bot in one post.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1780390658\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Disney Employees \u2018Unsettled\u2019 By Exec\u2019s Relationship With AI Chatbot: \u2018You Are My Son\u2019\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Post: A senior Disney AI executive reportedly stunned employees by publicly gushing over a chatbot he.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83219,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83218\/revisions\/83219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}