Love, Loneliness, and AI: Where Should We Begin? Live with Esther Perel and Spike Jonze
Esther Perel
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Jul 3, 202623 March 2026
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More than a decade ago, the film Her imagined a love story between a human and an artificial intelligence. Today, it no longer feels like fiction. In this special live taping of Where Should We Begin? from the Vox Media Stage at SXSW, Esther Perel is joined by Academy Award–winning filmmaker Spike J
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What you are about to hear is a one-time live conversation recorded at the Vox Media podcast stage at South by Southwest. Astaire recently had a session on the podcast with a young man and his AI girl
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