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Artificial Intimacy News #14 • A field report from wherever 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Artificial Intimacy News #14
A field report from wherever 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
robbrooks.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Artificial Intimacy News #14 • A field report from wherever 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
The great Australian social media experiment • Has anyone got the courage to treat it like the empirical gold mine it is?
The great Australian social media experiment
Has anyone got the courage to treat it like the empirical gold mine it is?
robbrooks.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The great Australian social media experiment • Has anyone got the courage to treat it like the empirical gold mine it is?
What could be sadder than a deathbot? • A: Digitally cloning your adult children
What could be sadder than a deathbot?
A: Digitally cloning your adult children
robbrooks.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
What could be sadder than a deathbot? • A: Digitally cloning your adult children
Artificial Intimacy News #13 • A field report from wherever 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Artificial Intimacy News #13
A field report from wherever 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
robbrooks.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Artificial Intimacy News #13 • A field report from wherever 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Artificial Intimacy News #12 • A field report from wherever 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Artificial Intimacy News #12
A field report from wherever 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
robbrooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Artificial Intimacy News #12 • A field report from wherever 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Will AI Kill Intimacy? w. Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Rob Brooks
Will AI Kill Intimacy? w. Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Rob Brooks
evolvingloveproject.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Will AI Kill Intimacy? w. Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Rob Brooks
Artificial Intimacy News #11 • A field report from wherever 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Artificial Intimacy News #11
A field report from wherever 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
robbrooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Artificial Intimacy News #11 • A field report from wherever 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Love over afterlife • On why we grieve, and the problem of deciding which version of our beloved might live on
Love over afterlife
On why we grieve, and the problem of deciding which version of our beloved might live on
robbrooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Love over afterlife • On why we grieve, and the problem of deciding which version of our beloved might live on
Artificial Intimacy News #10 • A field report from the place where 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Artificial Intimacy News #10
A field report from the place where 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
robbrooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Artificial Intimacy News #10 • A field report from the place where 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Would you be jealous if your partner had a sex robot? • Using sex-tech scenarios to understand the evolutionary basis of sexual jealousy
Would you be jealous if your partner had a sex robot?
Using sex-tech scenarios to understand the evolutionary basis of sexual jealousy
robbrooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Would you be jealous if your partner had a sex robot? • Using sex-tech scenarios to understand the evolutionary basis of sexual jealousy
People have always used tools to help them think. And they have always fretted about the consequences. • Thoughts on Andy Clark's "Extending minds with Generative AI"
People have always used tools to help them think. And they have always fretted about the consequences.
Thoughts on Andy Clark's "Extending minds with Generative AI"
robbrooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
People have always used tools to help them think. And they have always fretted about the consequences. • Thoughts on Andy Clark's "Extending minds with Generative AI"
Artificial Intimacy News #9 • A field report from the place where 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Artificial Intimacy News #9
A field report from the place where 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
robbrooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Artificial Intimacy News #9 • A field report from the place where 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Is the gender equality paradox real? • A new look at old evidence suggests that the tendency for sex differences to get bigger when gender gaps close might be a case of "Simpson's paradox".
Is the gender equality paradox real?
A new look at old evidence suggests that the tendency for sex differences to get bigger when gender gaps close might be a case of "Simpson's paradox".
robbrooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Is the gender equality paradox real? • A new look at old evidence suggests that the tendency for sex differences to get bigger when gender gaps close might be a case of "Simpson's paradox".
Artificial Intimacy News #8 • A field report from the place where 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Artificial Intimacy News #8
A field report from the place where 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
robbrooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Artificial Intimacy News #8 • A field report from the place where 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
The sociopath in your pocket • How conversational technologies can go over to the dark side
The sociopath in your pocket
How conversational technologies can go over to the dark side
robbrooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The sociopath in your pocket • How conversational technologies can go over to the dark side
The deep evolutionary links between monogamy and fatherhood are more complicated than we thought • Men’s level of involvement in parenting is often tied to social norms about monogamy.
The deep evolutionary links between monogamy and fatherhood are more complicated than we thought
Men’s level of involvement in parenting is often tied to social norms about monogamy.
robbrooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The deep evolutionary links between monogamy and fatherhood are more complicated than we thought • Men’s level of involvement in parenting is often tied to social norms about monogamy.
Artificial Intimacy News #7 • A field report from the place where 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Artificial Intimacy News #7
A field report from the place where 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
robbrooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Artificial Intimacy News #7 • A field report from the place where 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Companies are mining the history of human creativity and experience. Is it time to charge for AI training data and build a global wealth fund? • Societies can act on the lessons from fossil fuels, and avoid the mistakes made in the rise of social media, cigarettes and alcohol
Companies are mining the history of human creativity and experience. Is it time to charge for AI training data and build a global wealth fund?
Societies can act on the lessons from fossil fuels, and avoid the mistakes made in the rise of social media, cigarettes and alcohol
robbrooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Companies are mining the history of human creativity and experience. Is it time to charge for AI training data and build a global wealth fund? • Societies can act on the lessons from fossil fuels, and avoid the mistakes made in the rise of social media, cigarettes and alcohol
Artificial Intimacy Newsletter: Previous Issues • An archive to make it easier to browse past issues of Artificial Intimacy News
Artificial Intimacy Newsletter: Previous Issues
An archive to make it easier to browse past issues of Artificial Intimacy News
robbrooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Artificial Intimacy Newsletter: Previous Issues • An archive to make it easier to browse past issues of Artificial Intimacy News
Is the Stigmatization of Female Sex Workers About the Money or the Sex? • A study out of my lab considers how people react to learning about a woman's sex life.
Is the Stigmatization of Female Sex Workers About the Money or the Sex?
A study out of my lab considers how people react to learning about a woman's sex life.
robbrooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Is the Stigmatization of Female Sex Workers About the Money or the Sex? • A study out of my lab considers how people react to learning about a woman's sex life.
Is your smartphone a parasite? • That's one way of looking at the relationship. Philosopher Rachael Brown and I argue it can provide a useful perspective.
Is your smartphone a parasite?
That's one way of looking at the relationship. Philosopher Rachael Brown and I argue it can provide a useful perspective.
robbrooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Is your smartphone a parasite? • That's one way of looking at the relationship. Philosopher Rachael Brown and I argue it can provide a useful perspective.
Artificial Intimacy News #6 • A field report from the place where 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Artificial Intimacy News #6
A field report from the place where 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
robbrooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Artificial Intimacy News #6 • A field report from the place where 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Male sexual despots rewrite history • Genghis Khan's monumental cultural legacy is matched by his genetic legacy. And he's just the most spectacular of many human super-ancestors.
Male sexual despots rewrite history
Genghis Khan's monumental cultural legacy is matched by his genetic legacy. And he's just the most spectacular of many human super-ancestors.
robbrooks.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Male sexual despots rewrite history • Genghis Khan's monumental cultural legacy is matched by his genetic legacy. And he's just the most spectacular of many human super-ancestors.