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Can You Actually Fall in Love With a Chatbot?
A.I. relationships can’t replicate the complex, risky nature of love between two individuals, the psychotherapist Esther Perel argues on “The Opinions.”
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It’s amazing that we are just forgetting the embodied, the physicality of the experience between people. The A.I. is a programmed set of responses based on aggregated information. It is not here in the moment. It didn’t see the twitch in your eye that kind of said, yeah, I don’t really believe what you just said. That is interaction. That whole series of embodies — your hands, everything, your smile, your eyes. It’s like we are communicating with a lot of other things than just words. The intimate relationship between us and the machine at this point is primarily verbal. More than half of our communication is nonverbal.
A.I. relationships can’t replicate the complex, risky nature of love between two individuals, the psychotherapist Esther Perel argues on “The Opinions.”
January 29, 2026