Sex, love and companionship ... with AI? Why human-machine relationships could go mainstream

[...]people are drawn to AI-equipped machines for a range of reasons. According to theories about how sexual relationships with artificial partners would work, one of the many factors that could affect the quality of the interactions – and, ultimately, the wider adoption of relationships with robots...

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Published inThe Conversation U.S
Main Authors Dehnert, Marco, Joris Van Ouytsel
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Boston The Conversation US, Inc 03.04.2023
Subjects
Chatbots
Loneliness
Personal relationships
Robots
Stigma
Text messaging
United States > US
Arizona
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Summary:[...]people are drawn to AI-equipped machines for a range of reasons. According to theories about how sexual relationships with artificial partners would work, one of the many factors that could affect the quality of the interactions – and, ultimately, the wider adoption of relationships with robots and AI chatbots – is the associated stigma. [...]the developers changed how Replika interacts with its users – and some of these users went on to express feelings of grief, loss and heartbreak, not unlike the emotions felt after a breakup with a human partner.