In this episode of Love Unfiltered, Maria McHale speaks with Fiona O’Malley, CEO of Turn2Me.ie, about new research which finds that one in ten people in Ireland have had a romance with an AI chatbot in the past year. They discuss why this trend is growing and why we need to be careful and proceed with caution. They explore the blurred line between human and machine, the risks of replacing friendships with technology and ask if relying on bots for connection makes it harder to build and sustain genuine intimacy in the real world?