Can’t AI Me Love

“Is it important that your lover be a biological human instead of an A.I. or a robot, or will even asking this question soon feel like an antiquated prejudice? This uncertainty is more than a transient meme storm. If A.I. lovers are normalized a little—even if not for you personally—the way you live will be changed.” The New Yorker: Your A.I. Lover Will Change You. “Gargantuan, weird outcomes can start small in the tech world, and often innocently. The creation of A.I. lovers involves a degree of fabulous overreach, but it has primarily been driven by clean, practical problem-solving. The flaws in the tech world are usually not owing to ill intent but to amnesia and myopia.” (We were promised Teledildonics and we got A.I. chat buddies…)