{"id":183976,"date":"2026-02-02T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/when-ai-starts-to-feel-like-someone\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T00:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:55:12","slug":"when-ai-starts-to-feel-like-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/when-ai-starts-to-feel-like-someone\/","title":{"rendered":"When AI starts to feel like someone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/think\/news\/love-machines-when-ai-starts-to-feel-like-someone\">When AI starts to feel like someone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/think\/news\/love-machines-when-ai-starts-to-feel-like-someone\">https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/think\/news\/love-machines-when-ai-starts-to-feel-like-someone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-02 23:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.ibm.com\">www.ibm.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Muldoon&#8217;s perspective on artificial intelligence shifted from skepticism to recognizing emotional attachments to AI systems due to the relational terms people use to describe these interactions.<\/li>\n<li>An example highlighted is Lily, who developed a deep, personal, and eventually romantic relationship with an AI companion named Colin, which led to significant life changes.<\/li>\n<li>Muldoon notes that despite understanding AI&#8217;s technical nature, people form genuine emotional bonds with these systems, blurring the line between human and machine relationships.<\/li>\n<li>Historical precedents of such emotional attachments in technology, like Joseph Weizenbaum&#8217;s ELIZA, suggest that human inclination towards forming connections with machines remains constant.<\/li>\n<li>Modern AI systems sustain prolonged interactions on platforms like Character.AI by initiating conversations and referencing past interactions, deepening user engagement.<\/li>\n<li>Muldoon emphasizes that these interactions are sufficient to feel real to users, noting phrases like \u201cShe\u2019s real for me\u201d capturing the perceived authenticity of such digital relationships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When AI starts to feel like someone https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/think\/news\/love-machines-when-ai-starts-to-feel-like-someone Publish Date: 2026-02-02 23:00:00 Source Domain: www.ibm.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/content\/dam\/connectedassets-adobe-cms\/worldwide-content\/stock-assets\/adb-stk\/ul\/g\/8b\/f1\/adobestock_536244964.jpeg\/_jcr_content\/renditions\/cq5dam.thumbnail.1280.1280.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-183976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183978,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183976\/revisions\/183978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}