Hernandez. How AI effects human relationships by Gabriela Hernandez

Gjerde

herna827 — 2025-09-25 12:45:09 UTC

“Love, the codification of intimacy, is deconstructed by this discourse, as the idea of "AI-human love" displaces intimacy and other signs we associate with love, essentially transforming love into the codification of satisfaction, unrelated to the human touch.” (Gjerde.)

Tai

herna827 — 2025-09-25 12:46:18 UTC

“Human closeness will be gradually diminishing as AI will replace the need for people to meet face to face for idea exchange. AI will stand in between people as the personal gathering will no longer be needed for communication.” (Tai.)

ContentEngine

herna827 — 2025-09-25 12:47:00 UTC

“However, specialists warn that chatbots and AI platforms respond from specific programming, which limits their capacity for authentic empathy and their understanding of human complexities. This fact can influence both users' romantic expectations and the development of their interpersonal relationships outside the virtual realm.” (ContentEngine.)

Tai

herna827 — 2025-09-25 12:47:50 UTC

“As AI arises, human has a new challenge in terms of establishing a relationship toward something that is not natural in its own right.” (Tai.)

Gjerde

herna827 — 2025-09-25 12:48:20 UTC

“The idea that humans and machines can establish romantic relationships makes sense if one anthropomorphizes the AI and represents the AI's simulation of intimacy as actual love. This means that hyperreality is the result of interpretations , of a failure to distinguish between the real and the simulation of the real.” (Gjerde.)

Coeckelbergh

herna827 — 2025-09-25 12:49:19 UTC

“If there is too little understanding of AI and its potential problems, we face a danger of technocracy or simply no AI policy at all.” (Coeckelbergh 144.)

idea & example

herna827 — 2025-09-25 12:57:49 UTC

Little understanding of AI and it’s potential problems will lead to no AI policy at all and could create something that is not natural ( ie; human-AI relationships )

cause & effect

herna827 — 2025-09-25 13:06:05 UTC

the programmed limitations of AI cause the user to anthropomorphize the technology, and this hyperreal experience, in turn, influences the user's expectations for authentic human relationships

similarity

herna827 — 2025-09-25 13:08:32 UTC

Both argue that AI-based relationships and communication, while efficient and satisfying on the surface, are a hollow substitute for genuine, reciprocal human bonds.