Artificial Intimacy: AI Companions, Attachment, and the Future of Human Relationships

Dr. Levy will explore the myriad ways in which relating to AI companions/chatbots affects attachment, intimacy, and trust among human beings and, in some cases, drives human couples apart. Dr. Levy will conceptualize these unfolding dynamics using a psychoanalytic framework and propose ideas for working with these rapidly unfolding challenges clinically.

About the presenter:

Dr. Amy Levy, Psy.D. chairs the American Psychoanalytic Association’s (APsA’s) President’s Commission on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), serves on the subcommittee “Artificial Intelligence” for the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) committee, "Psychoanalysis and Technology," serves on the Editorial Board of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and as Editor of a Substack series, “AI in my Mind” also for The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She teaches and lectures internationally on the intersection of psychoanalysis and artificial intelligence, and is author of the book, The New Other: Alien Intelligence and the Innovation Drive. Dr. Levy is faculty at the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas (PCC), and maintains a private practice in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

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