Blinded by love: some male pheasants restrict their vision in a bid to impress females

Professor Edward Harcourt, Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI (Interim) and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, reflects on what our relationships with chatbots reveal about what is distinctively human. He argues that we must educate users to see these systems not as new members of the human community, but as tools that risk reducing both therapy and relationships to one-d