Artificial Intimacy News #19
A field report from wherever 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Natural History of the Future
Evolution, culture and technology, and how they interact in the 21st century. Home of the Artificial Intimacy Newsletter.
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Smartphones are contraceptives
Or maybe that should be contracoitals? Clever analysis of the iPhone rollout implicates phones in falling birth rates
Artificial Intimacy News #18
A field report from wherever 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Evolvable AI: are we on the brink of the next major evolutionary transition?
Evolving machines could be much more useful, and much harder to control
If you want to understand evolution – or AI – don't get hung up on mechanisms
Physiological and genetic wood can obscure the adaptive trees. It might be time to more clearly distinguish mechanism from function in machine-rich ecosystems.
Artificial Intimacy News #17
A field report from wherever 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
A Real Maternal AI Would Want You to Be Nicer - To Everyone
What evolution actually tells us about maternal instinct and AI
Did I just witness machine intersubjectivity?
A little experiment in building relationships goes off-road when Gemini meets Claude.
Artificial Intimacy News #16
A field report from wherever 21st Century technology meets human behaviour, culture, and evolution.
Ice baths and marathons: the modern obsession with ‘wellness’ is driven by ancient instincts
Some thoughts from Sam Cornell and me