Hallo, wie fühlst du dich heute? Wie KI unsere Beziehungen verändert.
A former social worker who says a chatbot saved her life during depression. An IT specialist who develops feelings for an AI character and now keeps a secret from his partner. A young woman who finds her way out of an eating disorder through conversations with an AI.
Millions of people worldwide now entrust AI systems with their deepest fears, hopes, and secrets. They seek comfort, friendship, therapy, sometimes even love. What begins as curiosity suddenly becomes surprisingly intense for many. Christoph Koch has spoken with researchers, founders, and users, visited nursing homes with social robots, and tested companion apps in self-experiments. He discusses the stories of people for whom AI has become an emotional counterpart with Nikolaus Röttger: What does this new closeness to machines reveal about our emotional needs and the future of human relationships?
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Christoph Koch, born in 1974, is a journalist and non-fiction author. He regularly writes for media such as brand eins, Die Zeit, or the SZ-Magazin, often on topics of digitalization, societal change, and psychology in everyday life. He has published several successful non-fiction books, including the SPIEGEL bestseller "Ich bin dann mal offline, ein Selbstversuch zum Leben ohne Internet". In further books - such as about the trend of self-optimization ("Die Vermessung meiner Welt") or a healthy relationship between humans and technology ("Digitale Balance") - he combines personal perspectives and gripping storytelling with journalistic research. Christoph Koch is married to a natural intelligence and lives in Berlin.
Nikolaus Röttger believes that our future follows the stories we tell each other. As a moderator, he leads conversations about change, living together, and optimism. As a journalist, he reported as editor-in-chief of WIRED Germany on the future, technology, and society. Today, he helps companies sharpen their stories during moments of growth, change, and crisis with his consulting firm FutureStory - creating clarity, cohesion, and actionable capability from it.
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