Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself

Love has always been shaped by risk, friction, and loss. As AI learns to mirror us more convincingly, the greatest loss may not be work or truth, but love itself. And the courage it demands.

What does it mean to be loved by a machine that cannot hope, suffer, or die? If bots can now replicate human emotions, does that mean they can also emulate love? More importantly, regardless if they can or cannot, will we choose to accept—perhaps even unknowingly—this form of love ourselves?

Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal published a startlin…