By Kwak Ah-ram – The CHOSUN Daily –
Author argues robot relationships risk emotional complacency, lack mutual growth potential despite offering unconditional acceptance. is even more so
Robots, and the People Who Love Them
By Eve Herold, Translated by Kim Chang-gyu, Published by Hyunamsa, 292 pages, 20,000 Korean won
Is this love, or is it not? Can we dismiss it as ‘fake’ simply because AI is a machine? If hearing this confession moved me, is that feeling also ‘fake’ because it’s a response to a machine?
Written by an American science writer, this book explores philosophical questions about ‘social robots’ designed to interact with humans and human love. Though the book was published over two years ago, the world has changed rapidly since then. At a time when many, like in the Netflix drama *Boyfriend on Demand* about subscribing to an AI boyfriend, are embracing AI as emotional companions, the author’s questions become more relatable when applied to AI.
