Have you ever felt certain about something, until you took a moment to really think about it?
Just Questions takes modern ethical dilemmas hiding in plain sight and unravels them. Weaving in philosophical ideas that span centuries, each episode aims to leave you with, maybe not clean answers, but sharper questions.
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It’s been a year since starting JQ, so to celebrate, we’re going to look back on two of my favorite questions. On today’s episode:
* Tourism, from Japan to Hawaii
* Elective cosmetic surgery and the illusion of choice
Thanks again for a year of tuning in and over 2,500 downloads!
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26 Feb 2026
PART 2: Can AI and humans love each other?
Artificial intelligence is now everywhere. And with the ease of AI and the difficulties of human relationships, a growing population is forgoing human relationships to instead develop relationships with AI. What’s going on here, philosophically: Are these relationships legitimate? Is the love mutual? Can it ever be?
Today’s episode, we consider the second half of these relationships—can humans love AI? Along the way, we talk about:
* Degrees of love
* To what degree we can love AI
* The impacts of choosing an AI relationship over a human one
Here’s Part 1 (https://open.substack.com/pub/justquestionspod/p/part-1-can-ai-and-humans-love-each?r=5bagv9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true).
Sources:
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-ai/#HumaRoboInte)
Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (https://archive.org/details/robotsexsocialet0000unse/page/n7/mode/2up)
Symposium, by Plato (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1600/1600-h/1600-h.htm)
Love (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/love/)
Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships – A Provocative Study of AI, Companionship, and Desire (https://www.amazon.com/Love-Sex-Robots-Human-Robot-Relationships/dp/0061359807)
Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data (https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.463.pdf)
Why people are falling in love with A.I. companions | 60 Minutes Australia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d08BZmdZu8)
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit justquestionspod.substack.com (https://justquestionspod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
20 Feb 2026
PART 1: Can AI and humans love each other?
Artificial intelligence is now everywhere. And with the ease of AI and the difficulties of human relationships, a growing population is forgoing human relationships to instead develop relationships with AI. What’s going on here, philosophically: Are these relationships legitimate? Is the love mutual? Can it ever be?
Today’s episode, we consider just one half of these relationships—can AI love humans? To do so, we evaluate:
* Various definitions of love
* Whether AI can meet the requirements of these different definitions
* If AI can’t meet those requirements now, can it ever meet them?
Stay tuned for Part 2!
Sources:
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-ai/#HumaRoboInte)
Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (https://archive.org/details/robotsexsocialet0000unse/page/n7/mode/2up)
Symposium, by Plato (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1600/1600-h/1600-h.htm)
Love (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/love/)
Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships – A Provocative Study of AI, Companionship, and Desire (https://www.amazon.com/Love-Sex-Robots-Human-Robot-Relationships/dp/0061359807)
Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data (https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.463.pdf)
Why people are falling in love with A.I. companions | 60 Minutes Australia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d08BZmdZu8)
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit justquestionspod.substack.com (https://justquestionspod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
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