Love & AI｜The Age of Artificial Intimacy – Tanya Slingsby

Is human love and identity at risk as romantic relationships rapidly shift from human-to-human to the human-machine dyad?

Learning to love is a fraught path for every human – we stumble, we hurt, we pick ourselves up again. Drawing from her near-death encounter and meditation practice after a cancer diagnosis, Tanya leads a poetic meditation on unity and non separateness, then moves into clear definitions of love as “deeply vulnerable mutual knowing” and human romantic intimacy – an encounter between embodied, finite, conscious beings willing to risk identity-level change.

Tanya contrasts substitutive AI systems that replace human relationships in an attachment economy with the possibility of augmentative systems that support real-world connection. She asks whether we are willing to expect more of ourselves and each other—instead of giving the future of love over to the machines.

What happens to human love and identity when romantic relationships move from human-to-human to human-to-machine?

Drawing from her own near-death encounter and daily meditation practice after a cancer diagnosis, Tanya begins with a poetic meditation on unity and non‑separateness, then moves into clear definitions of love as “deeply vulnerable mutual knowing” and human romantic intimacy as an encounter between embodied, finite, conscious beings willing to risk identity-level change.

Tanya contrasts substitutive AI systems that replace human relationships with the possibility of augmentative systems that support real-world connection, asking whether we are willing to expect more of ourselves and each other—not just more of our machines.
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