Relationships 5.0: How AI, VR, and Robots Will Reshape Our Emotional Lives
- Length: 304 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: 2022-04-15
- ISBN-10: 0197588255
- ISBN-13: 9780197588253
- Sales Rank: #943728 (See Top 100 Books)
A trailblazing inquiry into human love and relationships in the age of super-smart technology
Technology is our new life partner. No longer confined to the sidelines, new interactive technologies like AI therapists, avatar friends, and robot assistants are ready to transform technology’s role from basic tools of convenience to intimate elements of our social and emotional lives. This turn
towards human-like technology signals the beginning of a new epoch in human history, a change already facing both excitement and resistance.
Blending science, sociology, history, and psychology, Relationships 5.0 asks how recent technological developments cause us to think differently about our family lives, love affairs, and emotional needs. It argues that we are currently living through a technological paradigm shift similar in
magnitude to the preceding agricultural, industrial, and informational revolutions in human history. Thanks to the convergence of the cognitive revolution (AI), the sensorial revolution (VR and AR), and the physical revolution (robots), technology can now fulfill emotional, intellectual, and
physical needs that have until now been met by other humans.
While many are still wary of human-technology companionship, Relationships 5.0 reveals that these novel interactions aren’t as risky as we’d once thought, but can instead make our social and emotional lives richer and more diverse. Still, we must ask: What will the age of Relationships 5.0 look
like? How should we prepare for such an age? Who might already be ready to embrace these changes, and why?
Guiding readers away from fear and toward a new reality, Relationships 5.0 exposes the fundamental questions behind such essentials as companionship, trust, and love–and offers fascinating and revealing ideas about what the coming years will look like.
Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction Looking to the Past, Understanding the Future Relationships 5.0 The Research at the Basis of This Book Part One. The History of Relationships and Technology Chapter 1. Relationships 1.0 Hunter-Gatherers’ Technologies The Effect of Prehistoric Technology on Hunter-Gatherer Society The Effect of Prehistoric Technology on Procreation Relationships 1.0 The Various Forms of Prehistoric Relationships Hunter-Gatherer Technology and Relationships 1.0 Chapter 2. Relationships 2.0 The Development of Agricultural Technology The Effect of Agricultural Technology on Society Relationships 2.0 Agrarian Technology and the Multigenerational Family Chapter 3. Relationships 3.0 Technology and Industrial Society Technology, Religion, and Relationships The Rise of the Industrial City Life in the Industrial City Relationships 3.0 Chapter 4. Relationships 4.0 The Rise of the Information Age Information and Society Relationships 4.0 Part Two. The Coming Future of Relationships Chapter 5. Relationships 5.0 Relationships Components Accepting and Embracing the Three Revolutions Artificial Emotions Chapter 6. Relationships 5.0 and the Cognitive Revolution How Science Has Created a Human-Like Brain Pathways to the Cognitive Revolution Relationships 5.0 and AI Systems Talking with an AI System The Emotional Intelligence of AI Human-AI Relationships Accepting and Embracing the Cognitive Revolution Chapter 7. Relationships 5.0 and the Sensorial Revolution The Rise of Extended Reality Technology XR Development Relationships 5.0 and XR Technology Can Extended Reality Elicit Real Feelings? Extended Reality and Emotional Attachment Accepting and Embracing the Sensorial Revolution Chapter 8. Relationships 5.0 and the Physical Revolution The Rise of Social Robotics Relationships 5.0 and Robotics Robots’ Touch and Physical Closeness Robots’ Gestures and Facial Expressions Robots’ Caring and Nursing Feeling Empathy toward Robots Robots’ Emotional Intelligence Robots, Sex, and Intimacy Accepting and Embracing the Physical Revolution Chapter 9. Looking Ahead—Policy, Ethics, and Guidelines for Relationships 5.0 Diversification of Artificial Beings Safe Connection Being Human in the Age of Relationships 5.0 Conclusion Acknowledgments References Index
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