With a woman a look at Culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

In a clip recently posted online, Whitney Wolf Heard, founder of the dating site Bumble claimed that she wants to, quote,

help create more healthy and equitable relationships through AI.

That sounds good until you hear the rest.

She wants clients to be able to seek advice from a personal AI dating concierge.

And one day, she said, your AI dating concierge could even go on dates with other people's AI

dating concierges, reducing the number of actual people you'd have to meet in order to find Mr.

and Mrs. Wright.

So instead of talking to real friends

about your real problems or going on real dates

with real people to build a real relationship,

we'll have online avatars

do all the hard work of dating for us.

No, that kind of disembodied dating might take all their risk out of building relationships,

but it would also take out the reward, not to mention strip it of reality.

In an odd reversal of the goodness that God created for human

relationships, this kind of AI dating would just leave us alone. For the

Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street.