As loneliness and digital dependency grow worldwide, more people are turning to AI companions for emotional support, ...

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If I wanted to engineer a world where people would prefer an artificial intelligence (AI) companion to a human one, I wouldn’t need to invent some distant dystopia. I’d actually just amplify what’s ...

Fantasy has always been part of human culture, but its function is shifting. What once served primarily as storytelling or ...

When The Terminator and RoboCop hit theaters in the 1980s, Hollywood imagined artificial intelligence (AI) as an existential threat—machines that would dominate, surveil, and destroy us. Four decades ...

Garcia brings an array of expertise to The Intimate Animal. In 2019, at age 34, he became the executive director of the Kinsey Institute, the renowned sex-and-relationships research center, where he ...

Ian Kerner is a licensed marriage and family therapist, writer and contributor on the topic of relationships for CNN. His most recent book is a guide for couples, “So Tell Me About the Last Time You ...