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Connection Error

Julia Freeland Fisher

Connection Error is about our changing relationship with AI and how AI is changing our relationships. It explores the potential for AI to disrupt human connection as we know it…and what we can do about it.

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    Researcher at the intersection of disruptive innovation & social connection. Author. Mom. Trying to keep up with the rise of AI companionship and slow down to make sense of it.

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