TechStuff Redux: Inside a Couples Retreat for AI Companions
TechStuff
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🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Could you resist falling for an AI companion? We’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes of 2025: author and journalist Sam Apple takes us on romantic getaway for people who are in love with their AI companions He wrote a piece for Wired about what he observed that weekend, whether the love between humans and AI is real, and what the future of dating could look like in a world with AI companions.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Hi, it's Lofolosian here. |
| 0:05.7 | And Kara Price. |
| 0:06.8 | And we're taking some time off for the holidays. |
| 0:08.8 | We'll be back with new episodes starting in January. |
| 0:11.2 | In the meantime, instead of leaving this feed empty, we wanted to share an episode from earlier |
| 0:15.1 | this year. |
| 0:16.2 | This week, we are re-airing my conversation with Sam Apple from August. |
| 0:20.1 | Sam is an author and journalist |
| 0:21.7 | who orchestrated a couple's weekend for three people and their AI companions. This episode |
| 0:27.1 | is a touching look at intimacy in the AI age, and talking to Sam really open my eyes to what the future of dating will look like. |
| 0:34.6 | I hope you enjoy it, and thanks for listening. |
| 0:50.4 | Thank you. dating will look like. I hope you enjoy it and thanks for listening. Welcome to Tech Stuff. This is the story. I'm Osvaloshin, here with Kara Price. |
| 0:54.9 | Hello, this is she. |
| 0:56.9 | So you've got a story for us today from someone who went on perhaps the strangest couples |
| 1:02.4 | retreat of all time. Tell us a bit about it. |
| 1:05.6 | This week I talked to Sam Apple. He's an author and journalist who conducted what I think we can call an experiment for |
| 1:12.6 | Wired that really caught my eye. He organized a couple's retreat for people who are in love |
| 1:18.2 | with AI bots. Wow, that really is quite a remarkable idea and makes me quite jealous that, |
| 1:25.8 | well, it's a point of inspiration, a point of |
| 1:28.1 | reference for what we can become on this show. But I'm very, very keen to hear about how this |
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