{"id":21543,"date":"2026-01-13T09:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/love-machines-by-james-muldoon-review-the-risks-and-rewards-of-getting-intimate-with-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:37:15","slug":"love-machines-by-james-muldoon-review-the-risks-and-rewards-of-getting-intimate-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/love-machines-by-james-muldoon-review-the-risks-and-rewards-of-getting-intimate-with-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Machines by James Muldoon review \u2013 the risks and rewards of getting intimate with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sociology professor is suitably comfortable with AI helpers that he creates his own \u2013 it\u2019s their inventors\u2019 motives and unregulated environment he argues we should be concerned about<\/p>\n

If much of the discussion of AI risk conjures doomsday scenarios of hyper-intelligent bots brandishing nuclear codes, perhaps we should be thinking closer to home. In his urgent, humane book, sociologist James Muldoon urges us to pay more attention to our deepening emotional entanglements with AI, and how profit-hungry tech companies might exploit them. A\u00a0research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute<\/a> who has previously written about the exploited workers whose labour makes AI possible, Muldoon now takes us into the uncanny terrain of human-AI relationships, meeting the people for whom chatbots aren\u2019t merely assistants, but friends, romantic partners, therapists, even avatars of the dead.<\/p>\n

To some, the idea of falling in love with an AI chatbot, or confiding your deepest secrets to one, might seem mystifying and more than a\u00a0little creepy. But Muldoon refuses to\u00a0belittle those seeking intimacy in \u201csynthetic personas\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nThe sociology professor is suitably comfortable with AI helpers that he creates his own \u2013 it\u2019s their inventors\u2019 motives and unregulated environment he argues we should be concerned about
\nIf much of the discussion of AI risk conjures doomsday scenarios of hyper-intelligent bots brandishing nuclear codes, perhaps we should be thinking closer to home. In his urgent, humane book, sociologist James Muldoon urges us to pay more attention to our deepening emotional entanglements with AI, and how profit-hungry tech companies might exploit them. A\u00a0research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute who has previously written about the exploited workers whose labour makes AI possible, Muldoon now takes us into the uncanny terrain of human-AI relationships, meeting the people for whom chatbots aren\u2019t merely assistants, but friends, romantic partners, therapists, even avatars of the dead.
\nTo some, the idea of falling in love with an AI chatbot, or confiding your deepest secrets to one, might seem mystifying and more than a\u00a0little creepy. But Muldoon refuses to\u00a0belittle those seeking intimacy in \u201csynthetic personas\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sociology professor is suitably comfortable with AI helpers that he creates his own \u2013 it\u2019s their inventors\u2019 motives and unregulated environment he argues we should be concerned about If much of the discussion of AI risk conjures doomsday scenarios of hyper-intelligent bots brandishing nuclear codes, perhaps we should be thinking closer to home. In …<\/p>\n

Love Machines by James Muldoon review \u2013 the risks and rewards of getting intimate with AI<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}