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Book SynopsisThe evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks explores the latest research on intimacy and desire to consider how new technologies and fundamental human behaviors interact. He details how existing artificial intelligences can already learn and exploit human social needs—and are getting better at what they do.
Trade ReviewFantastic, funny, informative, and very, very timely. -- Kate Devlin, author of
Turned On: Science, Sex, and RobotsArtificial Intimacy is a great example of how to use an evolutionary perspective on human nature to illuminate an emerging, evolutionarily unprecedented area of modern life. -- Steve Stewart-Williams, author of
The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture EvolveRob Brooks weaves an engaging story of how this near future may look, drawing deeply on both his background as an evolutionary biologist and his skill as a scientific storyteller. Get ready for a roller-coaster ride into love and intimacy in your digital future. -- Toby Walsh, author of
2062: The World That AI MadeWitty, accessible, always fascinating but surely contentious, this is popular science that will appeal to readers of Yuval Noah Harari’s
Sapiens. --
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Artificial Intimacy' leaves the reader with a new understanding – and a million curiosities – about how technology influences our intimate relationships, and how that might change in the future. * AIPT Science *
An in depth and well-researched narrative. An excellent book. * Nicole Barbaro, PhD *
Artificial Intimacy weaves an engrossing story on the future that awaits us, without predicting whether or not it will be promising or dystopian. * The Hindu Business Line *
Very accessible work...recommended. * Choice *
This nuanced book written in clean, clear prose makes for compelling reading. * vijee venkatraman *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: In the beginning …
1. Meet the dollbots
2. It’s not about the robot
3. Groom your friends
4. The intimacy algorithm
5. How did sex become so complicated?
6. When artificial intimacy goes bad
7. Ploughs, pills and porn: How technology changes sex
8. Tomorrow’s moral panic will be just like yesterday’s
9. Make war not love
10. A Fembot army to disarm the InCel insurrection
11. There’s no such thing as free love
12. A future in four fictions
Acknowledgments
References
Notes
Index
