Artificial intimacy

October 28, 2024 — October 28, 2024

adaptive
bounded compute
collective knowledge
cooperation
culture
economics
ethics
evolution
gene
incentive mechanisms
institutions
neuron
utility
wonk
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Notes on the emerging futures of empathetic machines. The naming is due to Esther Perel.

I would be interested to think about artificial intimacy digital technologies as enabling or infantilising.

1 References

Costello, Pennycook, and Rand. 2024. Durably Reducing Conspiracy Beliefs Through Dialogues with AI.” Science.
Hanson. 2016. The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth.
Salvi, Ribeiro, Gallotti, et al. 2024. On the Conversational Persuasiveness of Large Language Models: A Randomized Controlled Trial.”