The next frontier of artificial intelligence may not be intelligence at all. It may be intimacy. Millions of people are already speaking to AI about things they once reserved for friends, partners, therapists or, occasionally, no one at all. They are asking chatbots how to respond after an argument, whether to leave a relationship, how to cope with loneliness, what to say to someone they love and what to do when they feel they cannot cope. We have spent much of the past few years debating whe
