AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share

AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share

We live in an age where artificial intelligence is coming for everything — from accountancy to software development. There were, until recently, a few domains we assumed would remain stubbornly human. Private pleasure, for instance.

You might imagine that the fully automated bedroom is still some way off. No chrome-plated interlopers humming quietly at the foot of the bed just yet. But a quieter revolution has already arrived, and it doesn't announce itself with fanfare. It comes instead in small, discreet packages, available from a certain ubiquitous online retailer, at roughly the cost of a short taxi ride — and, allegedly, capable of getting you to your destination rather faster.