Most people fantasise about having someone in their life who understands them without speaking even a word. Someone who gives unconditional love, no matter what. In our whole life, we might have encountered several people with such expectations and got hurt in return. This entire process keeps us refined and alive and gives the insight to meet the people we want. What if a third party, an AI robot enter this process? Will that be helpful or result in a conundrum?
As the pandemic hit in 2020, AI revolutionised the way relationships are handled. Many people took help from AI apps for their relationship stability, while some found solace in AI chatbot relationships. In both ways, AI is emerging as a powerful third party in our relationships. But the real challenge comes when it takes over the position of first party. Relationship science has already taken up this topic. If we want it or not, this AI relationship future is very much near. But, in layman terms, are we as a society actually ready for such a relationship? Did we figure out human relationships enough?
When the industrial revolution hit the world, a major societal shift happened in relationships. The concept of joint family suddenly shifted to nuclear family. And, many struggled with parenting and the trauma became a generational curse as toxic parenting. As society changed further in post-modern and digital age, the relationship equations have progressed at an exponential level. It ranges from dating, hook-ups and live-in relationships to long-distance relationships and same-sex relationships, parenting, “throuple” relations and so on. Thus a major event at any part of our history has revolutionised human relationships in a bigger way.
