Echo Liu

Why AI Companions Do Not Make the Human Dearer: The Re-Scarcification of Undeterminacy and the Rebound That Cannot Cash Out (Love and the Irreplaceable in the Age of AI Series, Paper 3)

This paper constitutes Paper 3 of Love and the Irreplaceable in the Age of AI Series. When a supply is de-scarcified, its complement is relatively re-scarcified. This paper carries that principle into intimacy and asks toward what a person wearied of an AI companion rebounds. Wha...

Why AI Companions Do Not Make the Human Dearer: The Re-Scarcification of Undeterminacy and the Rebound That Cannot Cash Out (Love and the Irreplaceable in the Age of AI Series, Paper 3)

This paper constitutes Paper 3 of Love and the Irreplaceable in the Age of AI Series. When a supply is de-scarcified, its complement is relatively re-scarcified. This paper carries that principle into intimacy and asks toward what a person wearied of an AI companion rebounds. Wha...

Relational Capacity Is Not an Emergent Ability: Scaling and the Two- Sided Constitution of a Relationship (Love and the Irreplaceable in the Age of AI Series, Paper 4)

This paper constitutes Paper 4 of Love and the Irreplaceable in the Age of AI Series. Whether artificial intelligence can enter human relationships is usually posed as a question about its interior—whether it has feelings, an inner life, or concern for the person it addresses—and...