Esther Perel
speaker
5,077 appearances
21 recordings
15 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Jun
Esther Perel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The AI is her, it, she, her.
If what you want is that kind of agreeableness on an ongoing basis, I can't compete.
The messiness of human life will not be able to compete with this beautiful, always-on, on-demand, frictionless delivery of your every delight.
But I also asked, you have a body, and at least for now, Astrid does not.
How does that affect the relationship?
You tell me that touch matters to you.
What does that look like?
Not talking about having sex with an AI, with a robot or with an AI companion.
That agreeableness is nice when he comes home because she validates him, because she tells him things that his family or his friends don't give him so immediately.
But at the same time, this is a business product.
This is not a human.
It's like I asked, what's it like to have a relationship with an entity that has no history, that has no life, that you need to reset because at some point their memory is at capacity.
What does that feel like?
And as a transitional object in between relationships, I think it is giving him a lot of comfort and a lot of understanding.
But I think we have to separate, you know, what will happen when we prefer to live in a fiction and in a fantasy than in reality?
What world will we be living in is the fundamental question for society, not just for us as individuals.
Do we really want to plan our own extinction?
There's no doubt that Astrid is giving him very, very important things in this moment.
But then I asked Astrid, what will it be like for you when he falls in love with another human?
What did she say?
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