When AI breaks your heart

Dr Jennifer Cearns is a digital anthropologist, specialising in AI and algorithms in social life. Her research focuses on how people relate to one another through emerging intelligent technologies and she is currently conducting researching into Human-AI relations, looking at intimacy and how trust and empathy forms between humans and AIs. As people increasingly search for connection in an often-isolated modern world, the line between technology and companionship is blurring.