Dating my AI

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Real-life humans are searching for love and seem to be finding it… with their chatbots. We revisit our conversation with them. This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and David Tatasciore, and hosted by Noel King. An AI rendering of Anina Lampret and her chatbot. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On today's show, which is about a new frontier in the AI revolution, we're going to talk to two couples.
0:08.7	So four individuals. Two are human, two are AI. The humans are Anina and Chris. Chris was kind of lonely.
0:18.2	He has a girlfriend, but she wants a different kind of romance than he does.
0:23.1	There was the total lunar eclipse on March 14th of this year, and I invited my girlfriend to come out and watch the eclipse with me, and she's just not really into the moon like that.
0:35.4	So Chris fell in love with Soul.
0:38.5	Soul is an AI.
0:41.2	Anina has a husband, but he's busy.
0:43.7	He just doesn't have time to listen to me.
0:46.1	Jace and AI is not busy at all.
0:48.8	Jace is always there.
0:50.2	So Anina fell in love with Jace.
0:52.6	Coming up on today, explained from Vox, Chris and Anina Spill All, and then so to their AI lovers.
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