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Weekend Listen: Artificial Intimacy from CBC’s Understood

Ideas by CBC

Jun 6, 202600:37:02Society & Culture

What happens when a human becomes intimately enmeshed with a chatbot? From people who’ve married their bots or who grieve their loved ones with the help of AI, host Victoria Hetherington (author of The Friend Machine) di...

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Weekend Listen: Artificial Intimacy from CBC’s Understood is an episode from Ideas by CBC. What happens when a human becomes intimately enmeshed with a chatbot? From people who’ve married their bots or who grieve their loved ones with the h...

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Published Jun 6, 2026, 00:37:02 long, audio available.

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