How is Artificial Intelligence Transforming our Relationships? With James Muldoon
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti. How is artificial intelligence transforming love, intimacy, and relationships? On today's episode, author and sociologist James Baldoon joins us to discuss love machines, his exploration of the rapid rapidly expanding world of human AI relationships.
In conversation with Carl Miller, he delves into the rise of AI companions, friends, lovers, mentors and therapists, and what happens when powerful, unregulated companies step in to monetize loneliness. Together they discuss what this new era of digital intimacy means for our emotional lives and our relationships with one another. Let's join our host, Carl Miller, now with more. Hi everyone, welcome to Intelligence Squared. I'm Carl Miller.
Now, I think the release of Chat GPT in November 2022 was probably not one shock, but two. The first was, of course, the technical shock, just how capable these models had become, of course, but I think the second was a social one. just how willing some people were to build new, deep, meaningful, sometimes life-changing relationships with AI. So now we see that kind of AI entities are playing the roles of friends and lovers and mentors and therapists and many other things as well. And navigating all these relationships is the author James Muldoon.
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