Can AI relationships take the place of people?
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Can AI relationships take the place of people? An increasing number of companies are trying, with companionship bots ranging from friends who lend a sympathetic ear to those bordering on pornography. But why are so many people pursuing these artificial relationships, often at the expense of other people? And what can the church do to call people to a more biblical approach, particularly when it comes to the role of sex and marriage?
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, May the 10th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins |
| 0:07.3 | with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan Denison. |
| 0:13.5 | Quote, what if the tech companies are all wrong and the way artificial intelligence is |
| 0:19.0 | poised to transform society |
| 0:20.9 | is not by curing cancer, solving climate change, or taking over boring office work, |
| 0:27.0 | but just by being nice to us, listening to our problems, and occasionally sending us racy photos. |
| 0:33.6 | End quote. |
| 0:34.5 | While that question from New York Times columnist Kevin Ruse may sound crazy to some, |
| 0:40.0 | AI companionship is among the fastest growing and most profitable applications of that technology. |
| 0:46.4 | And given Rousse's previous experiences with artificial companionship, |
| 0:51.6 | Bing's AI attempted to convince him he loved it more than his wife last year. |
| 0:57.1 | It was interesting reading about his latest experience with artificial friends. |
| 1:01.8 | He notes that most of the major AI developers believed, quote, that giving their chatbots |
| 1:07.9 | too much personality or letting users form emotional connections with them |
| 1:12.5 | was too risky." |
| 1:13.9 | However, their decision to remain out of that part of the market has opened the door |
| 1:19.1 | for others, some of whom already have millions of devoted users, and while the AI companions |
| 1:25.6 | they offer aren't perfect, Ruth's found them to be startlingly realistic and insightful. |
| 1:31.6 | Ruse's article is worth reading in full, |
| 1:34.1 | but the part that stood out the most to me pertain to the struggle |
| 1:38.0 | company's face with knowing where to draw the line |
| 1:40.9 | when it comes to AI companionship. |
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