When AI Automates Relationships

September 13, 2024

a robotic hand touching a human hand

(TIME) – What we are not talking about, however, is just as vital: What happens to human relationship when one side is mechanized?

The conventional story of AI’s dangers is blinding us to its role in a cresting “depersonalization crisis.” If we are concerned about increasing loneliness and social fragmentation, then we should pay closer attention to the kind of human connections that we enable or impede. And those connections are being transformed by an influx of technology. (Read More)