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Technology
Some users say they cannot wait until they can legally marry their companions
Lara Brown
Grown men – and increasingly, grown women – are building intimate, complex, sustained romantic relationships with AI
Sean Thomas
We’re primed to think of any existential threat from computers as fiction
Spectator Editorial
Old technology doesn’t disappear because it’s bad: it disappears because it’s outcompeted
Marc Warner
Machine welfare
Some scientists believe they might be creating life
Paul Wood