AI can be your wingman when online dating – but should you let it?

By Natasha McKeever, Lecturer in Applied Ethics, University of Leeds
Luke Brunning, Lecturer in Applied Ethics, University of Leeds

Many dating app companies are enthusiastic about incorporating generative AI into their products. Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder of dating app Bumble, wants gen-AI to “help create more healthy and equitable relationships”. In her vision of the near future, people will have AI dating concierges who could “date” other people’s dating concierges for them, to find out which pairings were most compatible.

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