AI Girlfriends: Are We Falling in Love With Code

 Keisha Rice is a Relationship Coach, Speaker, Hypnotherapist
Keisha Rice helps high-achieving women break through emotional walls and find meaningful romantic partnerships. With a background in communications and clinical hypnotherapy, Keisha merges subconscious reprogramming with modern dating strategies. She brings a refreshingly honest take on tech, trauma, and timing in today’s love landscape—making her one of the leading voices on the intersection of AI and dating.

Overview:

AI-driven companionship is becoming increasingly popular—especially with men who seek emotional safety, predictability, and low-stakes intimacy. In this eye-opening segment, Keisha explores whether AI is deepening human connection or simply helping us avoid the messy, beautiful work of real relationships.

Key Topics:

• The Rise of AI Companions Post-COVID
• Why Some Men Prefer Virtual Intimacy
• The Disappearance of Third Spaces and Its Social Impact
• When Technology Heals vs. When It Hurts
• The Emotional Cost of Choosing Convenience Over Connection

Takeaways:

• People are gravitating toward AI because it offers comfort—but it can’t offer accountability.
• Real growth happens when we engage in the discomfort and conflict that only human relationships provide.
• Social infrastructure and gender norms are shifting, and that’s reshaping intimacy.

Memorable Quote:

“AI won’t leave you—but it also won’t challenge you to grow. That’s the trade-off.”

Find out more about Kali and the show HERE: https://humanityoffame.com/

Transcript

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When I seen this, I was like, I got to hit her up. I got to hit her up, ask her to come back. All right, so do you think AI companionship is enhancing human connection or is it making people avoid real relationship? AI could in many ways ruin human connection because we talk so much about the loneliness epidemic, the issues that particularly men are having now with finding a partner now that women have more options to pursue career and, you know, live on their own and not necessarily get married. And we talk about the pandemic and the way that it isolated many people and how some people have chosen since the pandemic to, you know, they enjoy their isolation. So they're not being social now that we can be outside. And also third spaces, a lot of them disappeared. A lot of businesses where people hung out, those are not in existence anymore or they've changed. You see all these news articles about Starbucks, for example, lowering the amount of seating in restaurants because they don't want you sitting there. They don't want you hanging out. So with that in mind, you have people saying, okay, well, let me just turn to AI because I know it's always there. It's not going to leave. It's not going to break my heart. I don't have to worry about planning dates because everything can be done virtually. So this is so much easier. At the same time, just the way that technology could divide us, it also has the potential to unite us. You know, people could use AI back to that whole idea of a lack of third spaces. We think about the original Facebook groups and being able to meet people and communicate that way. Being able to use the technology to meet people, to bond and form relationships that way when you necessarily can't get out. I always talk to women about expanding their dating pool. You know, if you're doing online dating, that means geographically you can expand your reach a little bit more. So yeah, there are so many ways in which we get to use AI to improve human connection.