Aug 22, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 25 segments
Author Bridget Todd discusses her research on human/AI relationships. Her new audiobook "Love At First Prompt" is a fascinating look into how we communicate with these machines and whether it's good…
Jane MarieHostYou know, I think that we spent the last few decades having conversations about the more tangible aspects of our digital lives.
You know, who gets to profit from our images and our likeness and our IP and our browsing data and where we click.
Who gets to own and commodify that? I genuinely believe the next iteration of these conversations is going to be about who gets to commodify and profit from our inner emotional selves and our inner emotional lives and world.
It is not surprising to me that OpenAI just a couple of weeks ago announced their first ever consumer hardware product.
And that is going to be a hockey puck sized kind of Alexa like smart speaker that you put in your house.
And I think that we really have to shift the conversation away from the individual people who use it and toward the companies that are trying to commodify our emotional worlds and lives
You know, I think that we spent the last few decades having conversations about the more tangible aspects of our digital lives.
You know, who gets to profit from our images and our likeness and our IP and our browsing data and where we click.
Who gets to own and commodify that? I genuinely believe the next iteration of these conversations is going to be about who gets to commodify and profit from our inner emotional selves and our inner emotional lives and world.
It is not surprising to me that OpenAI just a couple of weeks ago announced their first ever consumer hardware product.
And that is going to be a hockey puck sized kind of Alexa like smart speaker that you put in your house.
And I think that we really have to shift the conversation away from the individual people who use it and toward the companies that are trying to commodify our emotional worlds and lives
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