Artificial intelligence is now everywhere. And with the ease of AI and the difficulties of human relationships, a growing population is forgoing human relationships to instead develop relationships with AI. What’s going on here, philosophically: Are these relationships legitimate? Is the love mutual? Can it ever be?

Today’s episode, we consider the second half of these relationships—can humans love AI? Along the way, we talk about:

* Degrees of love

* To what degree we can love AI

* The impacts of choosing an AI relationship over a human one

Here’s Part 1.

Sources:

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications

Symposium, by Plato

Love

Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships – A Provocative Study of AI, Companionship, and Desire

Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data

Why people are falling in love with A.I. companions | 60 Minutes Australia

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