By Brigid Delaney
Publication Date: 2025-11-14 14:00:00
RRecently, the conversation in a pub with a few of my friends who were Generation X parents turned to young love. Most of her children were in their late teens or early 20s and starting their first relationships.
These parents of the generation And we all prided ourselves on being more progressive than the previous generation. Love is love.
“I know you are all very accepting of your children’s choices,” I said to the group. “But what if your child came home from college and said they had fallen in love with an AI?”
A what?
“A chatbot. An AI…a piece of code. Nowadays that’s a real possibility.”
There was a stunned silence, a sort of wordless “Oh damn.” The parents at the table looked shocked.
A recent survey found that 28% of Americans have had an intimate/romantic AI relationship, while another study showed that 19% of adults have chatted with an AI romantic…
