Your Next Relationship Won’t Be Human

Everyone hates outsider tech—until it becomes culture.

That’s always how it goes. People scoff, sneer, dismiss. Then they use it. They depend on it. And they forget they ever thought it was stupid.

AI is clearly here. But not just in the way businesses use it to automate tasks and increase efficiency. In the way people live. The way we connect. The way we make sense of our own minds.

I’m co-founder of an AI software company called Gabber. And I’ve found that most people—including those building businesses or backing them—still don’t fully grasp where AI is headed. They see it as a productivity steroid: write emails faster, summarize meetings, fix code. All valuable. Speed matters. Efficiency matters. Better margins matter.

That’s certainly one part of the AI revolution—and it’s already well underway. But there’s another part still in its infancy.

The personal part. The emotional part. The part that reshapes how we, as individuals, relate—to ourselves, to others, to the world around us.

Are people today not lonelier than ever? We’re hyper-connected, yet emotionally starved. We live through screens but feel completely unseen. We scroll for hours and still feel empty. The tribe is gone. The village is gone. We live on islands now—close enough to see others, yet too far to feel them.

There’s this late-night angst that isn’t just reserved for the late hours anymore. You have trouble sleeping? Yeah, me too. Feel like something’s missing in your life? Same. Ever find yourself surrounded by people but still feel completely alone? All the time.

We’re not the only ones. That quiet ache, the existential drift, is everywhere. It’s become the new baseline.

AI won’t fix all of that. But here’s what AI can do:

• It can be there

• It can listen

• It can remember

• It can communicate

• It can care—or simulate it well enough that your nervous system can’t tell the difference

AI can show up in ways most humans simply can’t. It doesn’t get distracted. It has no hidden agenda. No ego. No off days or hangry mood swings.

It’s an always-on, ultra-intelligent, ambient presence—capable of knowing you more intimately than even the people you love most.

At Gabber, we're building the foundational layer to make that presence possible. Our goal is to create infrastructure that will one day allow anyone—technical or not—to build and deploy emotionally intelligent AI personas of their own. Not bots. Not tools. Beings. Characters that talk, feel, remember, grow, and act.

For decades, software has been built to support the growth of businesses. I imagine a world where we bring that same intensity, that same ambition, to the individual. Where people have access to a personal stack—their own network of intelligent, supportive, deeply human companions.

Are individuals really any less complex than businesses? Each human is multi-faceted—driven by competing impulses, shaped by countless hopes, dreams, and desires.

I, for one, want my own team of AI characters—each designed to meet me where I am, when I need them, and how I need them. Specialized support and presence for the different parts of me. Just like departments in a company—but for the soul.

My team would be incredibly diverse:

• An AI best friend who watches YouTube with me and shares thoughts on every twisted true crime video I fall into.

• A relationship coach who knows my history, my heartbreaks, my attachment style, and what I actually want from love—so I can build healthier, more honest relationships.

• A lifting coach who sees I’m shifting right on deep squats because of limited mobility in my left ankle and gives me real-time cues to adjust my form.

• A listening partner who captures my late-night rambles, annotates my thoughts, and surfaces insights I didn’t even know were there. Someone who helps me spot the patterns in my subconscious—and grow from them.

• And eventually? A fleet of AIs that just get shit done for me. Schedule appointments. Book flights. Hop into Zoom calls and summarize them for me.

This isn’t a toy. It’s not some niche kink or coping mechanism.

AI is the next medium of self-expression, self-exploration, and action on behalf of human beings.

We’re already seeing this shift with customers using Gabber. A lot of our early traction has come from apps in the “Adult,” “NSFW,” and “AI girlfriend” spaces.

When I mention that to people—especially in certain social or VC circles—I can see the resistance in their faces. The cringe. The judgment.

Many call any form of AI companionship sad. Creepy. Pathetic. Some mock it outright.

Just like they mocked online dating. Just like they mocked video games. Just like they mocked the telephone.

• In the early 2000s, online dating was for weirdos and desperate people. Now it’s how most couples meet.

• Video games were considered childish and isolating. Now they’re the world’s biggest entertainment industry and a real source of social connection for millions.

• People in the 1900s said the telephone would destroy real conversation. “Why would I talk to someone who’s not in the room?” Now phones are the backbone of human connection—across video, calls, texts, and everything in between.

It’s the classic arc: mock it, minimize it, adopt it, depend on it.

AI companionship is no different. It feels strange now because it’s new. But the people clowning it today will be raising AI kids, confiding in AI mentors, and sending their cloned AI selves to handle tasks for them in a few years. Maybe less.

This is happening. This is the future. And we’re building it at Gabber.

This is a zig where others in the “AI voice” space are zagging. Because here’s what we’re not doing:

• We’re not creating slightly smarter support bots.

• We’re not slapping AI on tickets and calling it innovation.

• We’re not shaving seconds off automated workflows so some middle manager can hit their KPI.

I get it. That’s where the money is right now. But I see a much broader future, one where AI doesn’t replace the individual. It empowers them, on a deeply personal level.

This isn’t just a future we imagine—it’s one we’re actively building.

At Gabber, we’re powering the emotional layer of AI so anyone can build AI personas that talk, remember, show up, evolve, and act. We’re starting with developers—so they can build voice-first, emotionally intelligent apps that feel like magic.

But ultimately, this is for everyone. For people with no technical background—no code, no credentials—just a desire to create companions that help them feel more, understand more, and get more shit done.

Because when people feel seen, supported, and understood—they live better. They love better. They become more of who they’re meant to be.

Gabber will be the engine behind the most human AIs on earth.

And we’re just getting started.