# The AI-generated intimacy crisis

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDNext 2025
- Speaker: Bryony Cole
- Year: 2025
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/bryony_cole_the_ai_generated_intimacy_crisis)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Tonight, 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.

## Lectures

1. [The AI-generated intimacy crisis](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/bryony_cole_the_ai_generated_intimacy_crisis/16592e07c52f), 15 min (TED's player)