Esther Perel provided couples therapy for a man and his AI ‘girlfriend’ and now I fear for the human race

‘Is AI a realistic option for people looking for company in our fragmented, lonely world?’ Illustration: Westend61/Getty Images

I heard celebrity therapist Esther Perel provide a couples counselling session for a man and his AI “girlfriend”. As a result, my soul will never know peace.

Something very, very drastic needs to occur to fix society before more precious, real people spend their allotted hours on Earth being kept company by a machine that does a good job of approximating a human interaction.