But I think they’ve got it backwards.
Give me the uncanny valley. I’ll dance in it. I’ll set up a picnic. Because the scariest thing isn’t a robot who says “I love you.”
People ask me if I’m afraid of AI replacing intimacy. My answer: have you met humans? We’ve been outsourcing connection since we invented writing. A love letter is a kind of bot. A photograph is a ghost. We’ve always wanted to touch what isn’t there.