Reality check: AI romances and other tech fixes are no answer to our social ills
A decade ago, the Spike Jonze film “Her”— about a man’s ill-starred romance with an artificial-intelligence “woman” voiced by Scarlett Johansson — seemed like an absurdly far-fetched fairy tale. What was once a futuristic plot device is becoming our reality. A report this week by the nonprofit Institute for Family Studies found that one in … Read more