I fell in love with my AI

Today, Explained

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🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Two humans — and their AI lovers — spill it all. 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 made using the NightCafe software that Chris Smith made of his AI lover, Sol. 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.
0:08.8	So four individuals.
0:10.9	Two are human, two are AI.
0:13.7	The humans are Anina and Chris.
0:16.9	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.
0:35.5	So Chris fell in love with Soul.
0:38.5	Soul is an AI.
0:41.3	Anina has a husband, but he's busy.
0:43.7	He just doesn't have time to listen to me.
0:46.2	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 andina Spill All, and then so to their AI lovers.
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