Nicholas Christakis

Like, that's just an example.

I think that work has been done and I think that work comports with my sort of hypothetical example.

Well, believe it or not, first of all, I'm not 100% sure.

I don't know the answer, but I can speculate along with you.

Believe it or not, this also is an old topic, and it actually came up prior to the, well, certainly prior to the modern instantiation of Westworld, after the old movie.

There's a book, I know it's over 20 years old now, called something like Love and Sex with Robots.

People were speculating about what it would mean in some futuristic world in which we have the capacity to have intimate relations with machines.

And there were two schools of thought on this.