The founder and former CEO of Bumble has frightened social media users after she prophesied the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in relationships.
AI has been on the rise in recent years and it is now prevalent throughout much of our lives. Whether you’re thinking of purchasing the latest iPhone, or you are using ChatGPT to find a boyfriend, you can’t get away from the technological takeover.
How will artificial intelligence invade relationships?
If there is one person to consider one of the leaders of the dating app space, it’s Whitney Wolfe. After launching Bumble in 2014 as the founder and CEO, she went on to co-found Tinder and act as its Vice President of Marketing.
While sitting down with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang at Bloomberg Tech in San Francisco, Whitney opened up about future plans and how AI could fit into them.
“Our focus with AI is to help create more healthy and equitable relationships. And that also starts with yourself,” she told the outlet. “How can we actually teach you how to date? How can we help you show up in a better way.”
When asked for an example, Whitney explained: “Okay, so for example, you could in the near future be talking to your AI dating concierge and you could share your insecurities. It could help you train yourself into a better way of thinking about yourself.
“And then it could give you productive tips for communicating with other people. If you want to get really out there, then there is a world where your dating concierge could be going on dates for you with another dating concierge.”
Whitney said the help of artificial intelligence would stop you from needing to talk to 600 people before finding getting into relationships.
Bumble’s customers don’t seem to be on board
While most social media users admitted that the premise artificial intelligence involvement in relationships was interesting, most compared it to previous episodes of Netflix’s Black Mirror. For those unfamiliar with the mind-bending show, the anthology series explores what happens when tech goes wrong.
Taking to the comments, one person wrote: “This is a slippery slope of providing dating platforms your most private and sensitive data – your emotional triggers and thoughts. It may make mate matching easier with your personalized AI, but the trade off is not worth it and devastating if the provider were to be hacked.”
“That’s literally the plot of a Black Mirror episode,” another person wrote, as a third said, “Why stop there, why not just let me work every single waking hour of my life until im too senile to process the world and in the mean time my AI can go on holiday, fall in love, kiss in the digital rain.”
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