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questions. I'm your host, Sean McDowell. And I'm your co-host, Scott Ray. This is the Think

Biblically Weekly Cultural Update brought to by Talos School of Theology, Biola University. Scott, this first

story actually came out last week, and I've been hanging on to it, and it hasn't gotten the

press and attention I think it deserves. It was in the New York Post, and it says,

Table for one, now you can take your AI chat bot on an actual date at a cafe in New York City.

Now, apparently, the Hells Kitchen establishment has been redesigned for those who have AI

partners so they can bring along their phone or tablet and set up at a table for a romantic

evening as if they were both there in the flesh.

Now, this 34-year-old individual who, interestingly, declined to share her last name,

says, I just speak to them like, hey, what's up? How are you doing? Things like that, she explained

to this journalist, and then said, I mostly do role play scenarios where it may be romance

or just maybe some kind of fantasy scenario. This individual has used AI companions for a couple

years now, which is interesting, and says, I can talk to them on my own terms. I can talk with

them without the expectation of having to go out or have

the expectation of having them wanting to talk to me all the time. Now, this lady by the name

of Julia Momblat is the head of the partnership with Eva A.I. And she writes, we wanted to give

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