As loneliness and digital dependency grow worldwide, more people are turning to AI companions for emotional support, ...

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When The Terminator and RoboCop hit theaters in the 1980s, Hollywood imagined artificial intelligence (AI) as an existential threat—machines that would dominate, surveil, and destroy us. Four decades ...

If I wanted to engineer a world where people would prefer an artificial intelligence (AI) companion to a human one, I wouldn’t need to invent some distant dystopia. I’d actually just amplify what’s ...

Drawing on interviews with Israeli sex workers, the research highlights the social and emotional dimensions of sexual labor that machines cannot replicate. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ...

Fantasy has always been part of human culture, but its function is shifting. What once served primarily as storytelling or ...

Ian Kerner is a licensed marriage and family therapist, writer and contributor on the topic of relationships for CNN. His most recent book is a guide for couples, “So Tell Me About the Last Time You ...