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#659 - Rob Brooks - Why Are People Falling In Love With Robots?

Modern Wisdom

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The Doom and Gloom of Artificial Intelligence

We have certain vulnerabilities in our mating psychology and just in our attachment psychology generally where there will be intimacy with a partner. Machines either on purpose or through maliciousness or neglect or ignorance or impreciseness all of these different ways are opportunities for somebody new that we are interacting with whether that be artificial or not. That can cause suffering and it can make people feel bad and it can also make them feel good and then after they felt good it can make them do things that they might not necessarily want to do. There's a massive epidemic of loneliness and disconnection and folks who don't have the social skills necessarily you know for one-on-one adulting etc so that's a good

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