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Artificial Intimacy News #8
In this issue: + Artificial Intimacy gets on Wikipedia (sort of)+ LLM-induced spiritual psychosis+ Meo, the jealous AI “girlfriend”+ Katie Price and the…
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The sociopath in your pocket
When Bel fell in love it was anything but instantaneous. The reservations she held eroded slowly as the steady trickle of conversation with Cy built to…
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The deep evolutionary links between monogamy and fatherhood are more complicated than we thought
Men’s level of involvement in parenting is often tied to social norms about monogamy.
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Artificial Intimacy News #7
A field report from the place where 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
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Companies are mining the history of human creativity and experience. Is it time to charge for AI training data and build a global wealth…
Societies can act on the lessons from fossil fuels, and avoid the mistakes made in the rise of social media, cigarettes and alcohol
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Artificial Intimacy Newsletter: Previous Issues
An archive to make it easier to browse past issues of Artificial Intimacy News
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Is the Stigmatization of Female Sex Workers About the Money or the Sex?
A study out of my lab considers how people react to learning about a woman's sex life.
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Is your smartphone a parasite?
That's one way of looking at the relationship. Philosopher Rachael Brown and I argue it can provide a useful perspective.
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May 2025

Artificial Intimacy News #6
A field report from the place where 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
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Your ancestors were inbreeders. So were mine.
That's mostly okay. We are all far more closely related than you might expect.
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Male sexual despots rewrite history
Genghis Khan's monumental cultural legacy is matched by his genetic legacy. And he's just the most spectacular of many human super-ancestors.
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Do Artists Have a Future? Getting from Guernica to GPT
How a trip to Madrid and Berlin convinced me that art might flourish alongside generative AI
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