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Who Gets Sold a Fake Friend? The Equity Cost of AI Intimacy.
Published on:
29th April, 2026
AI partners are here. Apps that remember your birthday, mirror your moods, and never argue. For a generation already battling record loneliness, the appeal is obvious. But who is this product really designed for, and who pays the price?
In this episode, Leah and Jenny Garrett OBE unpack the rise of AI companionship: the WHO data linking 871,000 annual deaths to loneliness, the apps cashing in on that grief, and the equity cost of selling frictionless intimacy to the people least equipped to question it.
We get into the politics of love as a subscription, who's most at risk, and why frictionless love is a contradiction in terms.
Listen now on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube.
