The loneliness dilemma: Safeguarding the AI companion era
In 1979, Swedish national Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer married the Berlin Wall. She suffered from a rare condition known as Objectum-Sexuality, characterized by romantic attraction to inanimate objects. While this may seem like an eccentricity from a bygone era, the core psychological drive — a desperate need for connection, even with the nonliving — is in the…

