“Between us, we've come up with about two people we know of who use an AI companion. The vast majority of aces we know don't, as far as we know. There's no reason to think aces need to use AI more than any others.”
Lucid Perturbations: The Sewn Drawings and Books of China Marks at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, NM, presents over 200 artworks from China Marks's sewn oeuvre, offering the broadest survey of the artist's hypnagogic tableaux of storytelling to date. China Marks dedicated the last 23 years of her active art practice to producing more than 600 sewn works. Lucid Perturbations, on view from May 15 to July 11, reveals the depth of Marks's artistic psyche and the range of her intuitive responses to the travesties and phenomena of our world, its power dynamics, and the tragicomedy or psychology of human relationships.
People are using AI for so many things, from asking it to respond to their emails to telling it their most intimate secrets I've been thinking about what the increasing prevalence of AI means for human relationships. In a study by vantage point, nearly a third of Americans have had some form of relationship with AI. Esther Perel has been a psychotherapist for nearly four decades.
Technology must serve the human person, not replace it,' Pope Leo said, decreeing that 'preserving human faces and voices' means preserving 'God's imprint on each human being,' which is an 'indelible reflection of God's love.' But chatbots simulate these faces and voices, oftentimes making it difficult for users to tell whether they engaging with a bot or a real person.
