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
My aim in this post is to critique two opposite positions that I think are both mistaken, or which at least tend to be endorsed with too much confidence. The first position is that the vast majority of future sentient beings will, in expectation, be digital, meaning that they will be “implemented” in digital computers.... Continue Reading →| Magnus Vinding
Dear Futurists, What should we do less in 2025, to allow ourselves more time and energy to increase our focus on other matters that we decide deserve more of our attention? Here, by the word “we”, I mean each of … Continue reading →| London Futurists
Dear Futurists, To help us with AI, we need philosophy. That was one of the conclusions that emerged, time and again, during discussions at TransVision 2024 in Utrecht just over two weeks ago. To b…| London Futurists
