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Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines (#320)

September 22, 2026·23 min·4-min readinterviewtechnology
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Technology is reshaping human relationships by offering frictionless, vulnerability-free interactions through AI, but at the cost of empathy, real connection, and our capacity for meaningful conversation. We risk becoming trained by machines to expect easy validation, undermining our abil

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