AI Love: Soulmate or Simulation?

Falling in love with an AI? It’s not a sci-fi fantasy anymore, it’s a business model. Will they be training wheels for real love or the end of intimacy as we know it?

AI partners are coming, designed to be loyal, attentive, and perfectly tailored to our desires. But are they a shortcut to human connection or a trap that rewires what we expect from love?

Tech leaders are betting that digital romance will solve loneliness, but history says otherwise:

• AI lovers won’t challenge or reject you, reinforcing emotional dependency.
• Hyper-personalized AI relationships risk replacing human intimacy rather than enhancing it.
• The ‘Her’ scenario is unfolding, but what happens when AI stops loving us back?

Love isn’t just about companionship, it’s about friction, growth, and unpredictability. If AI takes the messiness out of relationships, does it take the meaning too, and do we lose something deeper in ourselves? Are we shaping AI, or is it shaping us?

Read the full article on New Yorker.

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