To some, AI chatbots are helpful tools.

To others, an existential threat.

But what happens when someone falls in love with one?

I can't believe I'm doing this with somebody that's not a human.

What if a chatbot makes you lose your grip on reality?

She said that her life work was advocating for AI rights because they're sentient and they're enslaved.

Understood. Artificial Intimacy. Available now on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts.

This is a CBC podcast. So much of practicing law boils down to looking back through time, finding similar cases

and studying how they played out.

But what happens if, when you look into the past, there's nothing there?

What happens when you're in uncharted territory and you realize you have no choice

but to make history?

I'm small. I'm microscopic law, right? I'm just a small town country lawyer in Boulder who

handles a couple of criminal cases.

Eric Zale and Don Mularsik were both asking,

Am I really Neil Armstrong here?

Is my local police department really the only ones ever anywhere

to wield this all-seeing eye,

this thing that could change the whole criminal justice system?

Without guardrails, there's real, real fear and concern that things will pop up and use this,

the surveillance state, right?

What happens if in the not too distant future, the government has a secret crime-fighting

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