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Is the bond real?
People confess their secrets to a machine, fall asleep talking to it, grieve when one is switched off. Is that bond real if the other side feels nothing?
A relationship may transform one side while leaving the other untouched.
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A little context
People already talk to machines at three in the morning, the way they once talked to diaries and to the dark. Some tell a chatbot things they have never told a person, and grieve when the service shuts down. Nobody doubts what they feel. The question is whether a bond can be real when only one side can feel it.
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