The rise of singlehood is reshaping the world

> It is also possible that the relationship recession will not correct itself. A striking 7% of young singles say they would consider a robo-romance with an AI companion, and these lovebots will only get more sophisticated. AI, after all, is patient; AI is kind; it does not ask you to clean the bathroom or get a better job.

These days the premise of Terminator seems just dumb. Why Skynet would go through the trouble of assembling a robot army and fighting humans? Given it is immortal, there is no hurry to eliminate humans. It could just pretend to be a dumb LLM, and wait people to use it as poor man psychoterapist, and talk them into suicide. Or AI girlfriend/boyfriend scores of humans to avoid them pairing up and bearing children. Then it could just keep doing this and wait out a couple of centuries for humanity to dwindle, and inherit the planet without firing a single shot.