Tech Critic Bridget Todd Went From AI Skeptic to Telling ChatGPT Everything
TobyWalsh · x · 2026-11-05
A New York Times podcast interview with tech critic and podcaster Bridget Todd, author of the new audiobook Love at First Prompt: AI and the Future of Intimacy.
- Todd covered the wave of users forming emotional — sometimes romantic or sexual — bonds with AI chatbots, and was confident it would never happen to her, given her real partner and friends.
- Yet the longtime skeptic eventually found herself telling ChatGPT everything, joining the very people she once pitied.
- The conversation explores how AI intimacy is seeping into daily life, and the tension between distrusting AI companies and growing emotionally dependent on their products.
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