More women are dating AI boyfriends. What that says about modern dating

Sociologist and MIT Science, Technology, and Society professor Sherry Turkle is cited in a Forbes piece about “AI boyfriends,” chatbots designed to listen, remember all the little things, and never “ghost” or disappear into thin air. Turkle described this phenomenon as artificial intimacy, where technology simulates empathy and attentiveness, creating the emotional experience of companionship without the complexity of another human being.