MIT Technology Review Brasil examines how AI transforms human relationships
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MIT Technology Review Brasil devotes an edition to how platforms, screens and artificial intelligence systems mediate and transform relationships once seen as essentially human. The publication examines digital companions capable of inspiring attachment, phones competing for couples’ attention, the circulation of intimate data and technologies that promise to extend presences after death.
The edition also discusses changes in sex and the effects of synthetic pornography on consent and identity, as well as the growing use of these technologies and criticism of them.
Why it matters · editorial interpretation
The edition brings together practical and ethical questions about how AI systems and platforms enter intimate relationships: attachment to digital companions, the circulation of intimate data, and consent in the context of synthetic pornography. It may help readers assess these technologies beyond convenience, including identity and privacy.
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