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Can people experience romantic love for artificial intelligence? An empirical study of intelligent assistants
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“Previous studies indicated that humans can form romantic relationships with AI tools, such as robots, virtual assistants and ChatGPT (Song et al., 2022;Chen et al., 2025;Wan et al., 2024)”
From I love you, my AI companion! Do you? Perspectives from the Triangular Theory of Love and Attachment Theory (2026) · cites this paper as Song et al., 2022
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“While previous studies examining human-to-human relationships have established that love serves as a predictor of attachment, this research extends these findings by demonstrating a similar effect within the context of human-AI companion relationships (Mamun et al., 2023;Song et al., 2022;Zhai et al., 2024).”
From I love you, my AI companion! Do you? Perspectives from the Triangular Theory of Love and Attachment Theory (2026) · cites this paper as Song et al., 2022
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“Prior research in the field of human-chatbot relationships show users who trust intelligent assistants may experience love, intimacy, and passion in interactions, influenced by strong chatbot performance and anthropomorphic design [34].”
From "I tell him everything that I do": An investigation of privacy and safety implications of AI companion usage (2025) · cites this paper as [34]
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- Song, X., Xu, B., & Zhao, Z.
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- Information & Management
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- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-03
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- 59
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- 2
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- 103595
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- 0378-7206
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