Headlines like “Man Proposed to His AI Girlfriend” and “She’s In Love With ChatGPT” reflect a cultural moment where romantic relationships with artificial intelligence are no longer niche curiosities—they’re mainstream. Companion AIs, like Replika or Character.AI, are increasingly embedded in people’s emotional lives, and sometimes even their romantic ones. Replika, for example, boasts over 30 million users as of mid-2024, with…| Blog of the APA
I would like to suggest that they are, sometimes, but not always, us. Sometimes, people speak without thought. This is something that can happen to most of us, and I would like to propose a way of thinking about how and why this happens, hoping that understanding the cause of a problem is a substantial…| Blog of the APA
Frantz Fanon’s work has primarily been received through the lens of his political writings and the political aspects of his work. His psychiatric writings and psychoanalytic concepts, however, have not attracted nearly as much interest. Yet, because Fanon’s dual role as a psychiatrist and political thinker manifests itself in both his theoretical and practical work,…| Blog of the APA
Richard B. Gibson is Editor of the Current Events in Philosophy and the Bioethics series. He is a bioethicist with research interests in human enhancement, emergent technologies, novel beings, disability theory, and body modification.| blog.apaonline.org
