Esther Perel on Artificial Intimacy (rerun)

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🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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[This episode originally aired on August 17, 2023] AI is harming our relationships, warns acclaimed psychotherapist Esther Perel. What would it look like for technology to strengthen our social bonds, rather than depriving us of the nuance that allows us to connect?

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is Tristan.
0:01.6	Before we start, we're gearing up for a new Ask Us Anything episode.
0:05.0	If there are any questions you like to ask me, Aisa or Daniel,
0:08.4	we want to hear from you. All you need to do is record your question on your phone
0:12.3	and send it to Undivided at humane tech.com.
0:15.8	That's undivided at humane tech.com.
0:18.3	So today we're bringing back one of my favorite conversations on your invited
0:23.5	detention and that's with my friend Esther Perel the brilliant psychotherapist
0:27.5	who counsels couples in real life and on her podcast where should we begin and in this
0:32.2	episode we get to explore the world of artificial
0:35.2	intimacy, which Esther calls the other AI. And even since last year, these kinds of
0:40.2	unsettling technologies have grown by leaps and bounds.
0:43.2	From holographic AI home companions
0:45.7	to an AI-wurable friend that you hang around your neck
0:48.4	like a pendant, to AI chatbots that market themselves
0:51.5	to be therapists for kids. There's so much at
0:54.2	stake with getting this right as AI keeps advancing. So I hope you enjoy this
0:57.6	conversation and take it away.
0:59.3	I go from one technology conference to another. I can tell you the word relationship is never mentioned.
1:10.0	Never mentioned. There are moonshots about everything.
1:15.0	Environment education, health, transportation, you name it.
1:18.0	Nobody ever is looking at a moonshot for relationships.
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