Author(s)

Xianghu Qiu, Duling Cai

Corresponding Author

Duling Cai

ABSTRACT

With more and more interactive artificial intelligence (AI) and robots are designed and developed, they have a huge potential to replace humans in many aspects. The replacement will cause significant changes to society because robots have efficient processing systems. In terms of a romantic relationship, AI partners are capable of becoming a substitute for human partners, but we do not know which group of people and how many people will accept such a love affair and what are people thinking about AI partners. Given the fact that AI products, which focus on romantic partners, are still in the emerging phase, we assume the youths with age under around 20 will have the opportunity to try to have a romantic relationship with the AI partners that are very similar in physical appearance as the real human partners. In this study, the population is the Chinese youths, and we designed an online survey that was posted through social media and had 104 voluntary respondents. The questions in the survey focused on investigating the respondents’ inclination towards AI partners.

KEYWORDS

Artificial Intelligence, Love Attitude, AI Romantic Partners, Robot Partners, Sex Ratio Imbalance