Esther Perel

So thank you so much for joining us on The Imperfects.

It helps me think.

And primarily, it helps me structure my thoughts.

So I will use it when I have written a whole bunch of things and I want help with organization.

I think that's really where I find it most useful in summarizing, in giving me highlights.

And then you begin to see that AI speaks in a certain way.

Three, three, three, four.

Three, three, three, four.

You know, it's like a choreography of information.

And it likes to do threes.

Three points around this, three points around that.

Summary four.

And at that moment, I think it's time to go take a book.

Maybe before we answer it in this yes or no, healthy, unhealthy, you know, I've been trying to think to myself, depending on how you define relationships, that will color your answer about, therefore, what does it mean when it's between a human and AI?

But first, we need to define what goes on in relationships or what goes on in love.

The majority of the time when we talk about love in AI or intimacy in AI, we talk about it as feelings.

But love is more than feelings.

Love is an encounter.

It is an encounter that involves ethical demands, responsibility, that is embodied.

That embodiment means that there is physical contact, gestures, rhythms, gaze, frottement.