The AI-Generated Intimacy Crisis | Bryony Cole | TED

Millions of people will go to bed and whisper to an AI companion.

But what are we giving up when we fall in love with machines? Sextech expert Bryony Cole offers three questions to ask yourself if you’re already intimate with AI, laying out a playbook for synthetic companionship that doesn’t hide you from the messiness of human life — but prepares you for it instead. (Recorded at TEDNext 2025on November 10, 2025)

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