AI Girlfriends

Nicolás Vega

Nicolás Vega was born in Caracas and raised between Venezuela and Miami, in a family where medicine, sex, politics, and relationships were discussed with very little restraint. He studied biology and behavioral science before moving into journalism, drawn less to technology itself than to what technology reveals about desire, confidence, pleasure, and the human body.

Articles by Nicolás Vega

How an AI Girlfriend Is to Blame for the War in Iran

AI Girlfriends

How an AI Girlfriend Is to Blame for the War in Iran

Love now runs on a server farm, and a lonely engineer's whispered secrets to his AI girlfriend may have cracked open a nation's deepest defenses. This is the strange, human story of how digital desire became a weapon.