Adam Dodge

AI is becoming our relationship whisperer, shaping how people date, communicate, and navigate relationships. It’s happening everywhere, but we’re not talking about it. That has to change.

Chatbots are quietly coaching people through flirting, boundaries, red flag identification, and conflict navigation in ways that used to require another human being. Dodge examines what happens when we outsource emotional processing and social skill development to AI: the real risk isn't the technology itself, but a generation collectively offloading the labor that is critical to building judgment, intimacy, vulnerability, and accountability.

Audiences leave with practical strategies for building emotional intelligence, maintaining agency, and fostering healthy, reciprocal relationships in an AI-driven world.

Key Takeaways:

• What it means for AI to become a ""relationship whisperer,"" dictating flirting, boundaries, and hard conversations

• The concept of emotional intelligence offloading, and why it's the blind spot in most AI conversations

• How core human stakes like judgment, intimacy, vulnerability, and accountability are being outsourced

• Practical strategies for building emotional intelligence and maintaining social agency in an AI-integrated world

• What healthy, reciprocal relationships look like when AI is part of the picture