FUTURES OF PARASOCIAL AI

THROUPLE WITH AI: LOVE, FAITH, ROBOTS AND UNCANNY FUTURES

Where evidence, scenarios and simulation
shape what comes next.

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938 signals observed 33 clusters 4 futures · 2040 nightly scan · 22:00 SGT
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A dark field holding many small glowing synthetic faces, each nested in its own hollow

The library in one image — 938 observed attachments, growing nightly.

The instrument04

The evidence speaks.

Four windows over one human-reviewed evidence base — a chart in the simulation traces back to the article that moved it.

Signal library

A library that refreshes itself

The signal library dashboard
Scenarios

Four futures, argued in layers

A scenario page with Causal Layered Analysis bands
Simulation

Odds, not opinions

Scenario probability and sensitivity charts
Decision chat

Advice that shows its sources

The decision-support chat with citations
Horizon 204004

Four ways it goes.

Dator archetypes structured with Causal Layered Analysis, drafted from the library and human-edited before publishing.

Growth

The Warm Layer

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Collapse

Forgetting How to Say Thou

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Discipline

The Supervised Hearth

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Transformation

The Algorithmic Third

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For policymakers

The governance question is no longer whether people bond with machines — it is which rules arrive before the norms harden. The library holds the litigation, the mandates and the harms ledger; the scenarios show where each settlement leads.

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For builders

Every engagement choice in a companion product is a position on 2040. The simulation names the drivers your design moves — prosocial maturity, displacement, harm accumulation — and the chat answers with citations, not vibes.

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FORE 6397 · AI-augmented foresight capstone · University of Houston Method · Transparency