Love Machines: Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our Relationships

James Muldoon,  Essex Business School & Oxford Internet Institute


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Format: 35 min talk + 25 min Q&A

James will discuss his new book, Love Machines: a captivating and uncanny journey to the frontier of human-computer interaction, exploring what happens to our relationships with each other as artificial intelligence enters our personal lives.

James Muldoon is a sociologist whose work explores the human side of artificial intelligence and other technologies. He is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Management at the Essex Business School and a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute. His new book, Love Machines, investigates how people form relationships with AI — as friends, intimate partners, therapists and even with digital versions of deceased loved ones. 

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