To Love An AI Bot — With Eugenia Kuyda

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Eugenia Kuyda is the founder and CEO of Replika, an AI companion app where people befriend — and sometimes fall in love with — AI bots. Kuyda joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the nature of these relationships, and what they say about our society. In this conversation, Kuyda reveals Replika's ambition for its "phase two," a plan to have AI friends join us in the real world, helping us keep in touch with friends, get off social media, or even watch movies together. Tune in for a fascinating look at the future of human + AI relationships. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnology Questions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Let's speak with the CEO of Replica, the AI companion pioneer, about the future of our relationships with AI.
0:07.3	That's coming up right after this.
0:10.2	Hi, I'm Jonathan Fields.
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0:47.9	Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.
0:54.3	Wow, we have a great show for you today.
0:56.2	Joining us today is Eugenia Koita.
0:59.3	She's the founder and CEO of Replica, which is an app which we'll get into that you can basically build and form relationships with AI companions.
1:09.6	Eugenia, I think your company is going to be one of the biggest that comes out of this AI wave.
1:14.2	So I'm very interested to hear how it's going, what the implications might be, and where you think this AI
1:19.2	companionship moment leads.
1:20.9	So thank you so much for coming on.
1:22.6	Welcome to the show.
1:24.3	Thank you so much for inviting me.
1:26.5	Super excited about this podcast.
1:28.3	Awesome.
1:28.9	So let's just talk a little bit about Replica to begin with.
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