A common confession is that AI partners don’t shame, mock, or weaponize vulnerability. Users say they can admit fears, ...

Romantic relationships with artificial intelligence have moved from science fiction to lived reality, and the latest research suggests those bonds are far more intense and committed than most people ...

Can AI enhance creativity and connection—or do they deepen our dependency and distress? Discover what recent studies reveal ...

Few human endeavors are as rewarding and as frightening as acts of intimacy. We come into the world with a drive for intimate contact that develops and articulates itself in various complex ways ...

ROLLA, Mo. — In 2024, after living together for five years, a Spanish-Dutch artist married her partner—a holographic artificial intelligence. She isn’t the first to forge such a bond. In 2018, a ...

While AI has surged in popularity in America, with 78 percent of employees reporting use of AI tools in a recent survey from Anagram, the technology is also making major waves in the dating culture.

Four examples—literary, biographical, autobiographical and contemporary—illustrate the significance of intimacy as a cultural ideal and why, despite our deep longing for it, intimacy remains elusive ...

Among the vast galaxy of science-fiction stories, few feel as eerily prophetic as Spike Jonze’s 2013 film Her. In it, a lonely letter-writer named Theodore falls in love with an operating system named ...