Artificial intimacy: ethical issues of AI romance.

Journal: Trends in cognitive sciences
Published Date: Apr 11, 2025

Abstract

The ethical frontier of artificial intelligence (AI) is expanding as humans form romantic relationships with AIs. Addressing ethical issues of AIs as invasive suitors, malicious advisers, and tools of exploitation requires new psychological research on why and how humans love machines.

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  • Daniel B Shank
    Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA. Electronic address: shankd@mst.edu.
  • Mayu Koike
    Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Steve Loughnan
    University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

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