The Story: Inside a Couples Retreat for AI Companions
TechStuff
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🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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This week we go on a romantic getaway for people who are in love with AI. Karah talks with Sam Apple, an author and journalist who wrote an article for Wired about a couples retreat he organized for people with AI companions. We’ll discuss how the weekend unfolded, whether AI romance is real, what it takes to develop genuine emotional connections with chatbots, and whether AI romance is the future of dating in the digital age.
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| 1:17.6 | Welcome to Tech Stuff. This is The Story. I'm Osvaloshin, here with Kara Price. |
| 1:22.6 | Hello, this is she. |
| 1:24.6 | So you've got a story for us today from someone who went on perhaps the strangest couples retreat of all time. |
| 1:32.8 | Tell us a bit about it. |
| 1:33.9 | This week I talked to Sam Apple. |
| 1:35.7 | He's an author and journalist who conducted what I think we can call an experiment for Wired that really caught my eye. |
| 1:42.8 | He organized a couple's retreat for people who are in love with AI bots. |
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