What happens when AI starts to feel like something you can talk to... confide in even?
Akilah Hughes talks to tech and culture podcaster Bridget Todd about the surprisingly common phenomenon of AI intimacy, and why laughing at people with AI boyfriends might mean we're missing the bigger story.
Check out Bridget's new audiobook, Love at First Prompt: AI and the Future of Intimacy and her amazing podcast, There Are No Girls on the Internet
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