From FaceTime and WhatsApp calls to Teams and Zoom, digital has become the main way we’re communicating during the pandemic. Canvas8 polled 1,000 Americans and spoke to eight people to find out which digital communication methods they’re using and how they feel about them.

Algorithms have become central to discovering new music and products online – but are machine-led recommendations always welcome? Canvas8 spoke to Chiara Longoni, an assistant professor at Boston University, to understand how people’s goals impact their willingness to trust AI.

While virtual influencers have caused a buzz in music and fashion, we've yet to see them mainstream – until now. At CES, LG launched three products with the help of a nonhuman spokesperson – showing how humanoid avatars are being increasingly normalised.

Newspaper headlines and dystopian films might push the narrative that machines will inevitably turn on their creators, but research suggests that people have similar levels of trust in robots as they do in humans – though they hold humans more accountable for their actions.