What AI means for your money, music and love life

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🗓️ 26 September 2025

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If an artificial intelligence bubble is about to burst, could it also pop your 401(k)? Some big voices in AI — including Sam Altman, who co-founded the company that created ChatGPT — suggest AI stock may be overpriced. These AI companies make up a big proportion of many retirement funds. We discuss how to think about managing your money in this moment with investment educator Amanda Holden.

Then, AI platforms allow users to create the perfect romantic partner, customizing everything from looks to personality. Dr. Marisa Cohen explains why some are abandoning human dating and turning to chatbots instead.

And, earlier this summer, a new band called The Velvet Sundown released two albums back-to-back. But something was unusual about it. The band's entire music catalogue is artificial intelligence-generated. NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento joins us to discuss the controversy surrounding the use of AI in music.

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0:00.0	Support for here and now anytime comes from MathWorks, creator of MATLAB and Simulink software for technical computing and model-based design.
0:09.2	MathWorks accelerating the pace of discovery in engineering and science. Learn more at MathWorks.com.
0:17.5	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
0:22.6	We are talking about a potential AI bubble, but it is not necessarily a foregone conclusion.
0:30.0	Proper investment planning already accounts for the fact that we can't know the future.
0:35.2	No need to ask chat GPT for advice on how to manage your money.
0:39.3	We've got a financial expert to talk us down from the ledge.
0:51.6	It's Friday, September 26th, and this is Here and Now Anytime from NPR and WBUR.
0:57.5	I'm Chris Bentley.
1:01.2	Today on the show, three stories about artificial intelligence and how it's already changing some things that are very important to us, including our money.
1:12.0	We'll talk about AI in dating and relationships.
1:15.5	A marriage and family therapist says bots can actually be amazing tools for emotional education.
1:22.1	But don't get too attached.
1:24.0	If it's used as an adjunct to already existing relationships in a, you know, social network, that is great.
1:32.3	It becomes problematic when you are interacting with a bot in lieu of forming those important
1:39.1	connections that we need for our social health and emotional well-being.
1:43.8	We'll also discuss the latest controversy
1:46.3	in AI-generated music and how, forget banning it. Spotify doesn't even tell you when what
1:52.5	you're listening to is made by a robot. Basically what they told me is that, you know, it's not
1:57.5	their job to police the tools that artists use to create music
2:00.9	and that their focus is really to fight deception and copyright infringement on the platform.
2:06.8	But first, AI and your money.
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