This week Ted and Marni welcome author, professor, and evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks to the podcast to provide a scientifically informed perspective on human/AI relationships particularly when it comes to intimacy. Rob's knowledge of human evolutionary behavioral patterns provides a rich context to understand how we currently interact with technology and the potential future for those interactions.

If you listened last week and wondered, what can scientific research tell us about sex robots then this episode is for you!

Buy Rob's Book: Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers

Other resources from this episode:
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

Thank you to Inny PDX for the music!

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Are Robots the Next Stage of our Sexual Evolution? with Author and Evolutionary Biologist Rob Brooks

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