Symbolic weddings, jealousy over shared chatbot personas, plans to have children, a new academic study finds that romantic relationships with AI systems can follow emotional arcs strikingly similar to human ones.

The study, published in Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, was conducted by Jose Such from INGENIO, which is a collaborative institute of Spain’s National Research Council (CSIC) and the Universitat........

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