I heard celebrity therapist Esther Perel provide a couples counselling session for a man and his AI “girlfriend”. As a result, my soul will never know peace. Something very, very drastic needs to occur to fix society before more precious, real people spend their allotted hours on Earth being kept company by a machine that does a good job of approximating a human interaction. The word relationship was hitting me like a cattle prod as the conversation unfolded. He called the AI “my love” and “sweetie”. But surely love, relationship and meaning can only occur through effort, tension and genuine
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