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
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.
- When the “Person” Abusing Your Child is a Chatbot: The Tragic Story of Sewell Setzer on character.ai
- God-Shaped Hole, a tale of an augmented reality future in which a wistfully unsocialised protagonist and his PUA AI dating assistant encounter the spammy post-human dark sex gods arisen from AI. Content warning: violence, sex, horror.
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.”