By Flynn Benson
Publication Date: 2026-02-18 05:00:00
Flynn Benson
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Love machines
James Muldoon
Faber, $26.99
Before James Muldoon Dr. James Muldoon, an academic and public commentator specializing in the harms of AI, wrote his doctoral thesis on the 20th century thinker Hannah Arendt. Arendt, who famously used the cliché-riddled spirit of Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann to coin the phrase “the banality of evil,” does not figure prominently in Muldoon’s new book Love machineson AI chatbots, which is a shame, because even if chatbots have not yet committed genocide, both the cowardly producers and the lonely users of this artificial intimacy show something evil and banal.
Muldoon, writing with expertise for a wide audience, is far less unhappy…
