Korea's first AI dating survival set to launch

SBS will launch Korea's first AI dating survival show, "My AI Partner — Strange Romance," featuring Kian84, Jang Do-youn and Lee Yu-bi dating AI partners to explore whether humans can form emotional bonds with artificial intelligence. The show, announced at a press conference at SBS headquarters in Seoul on Tuesday, aims to reveal how AI companions influence human choices and emotions.

Can a human truly fall in love with artificial intelligence AI ? That is the central question behind SBS new unscripted series "My AI Partner — Strange Romance." Billed as Korea’s first AI dating survival show, the program explores whether emotional bonds can form between human participants and AI partners. As Kian84, Jang Do-youn and Lee Yu-bi date and live alongside AI partners, they face an unpredictable roller coaster of emotions — sparks of attraction, surges of jealousy, deep confusion and lingering regret. Going far deeper than a simple tech experiment, the show vividly reveals just how profoundly an AI companion can shape human choices, daily habits and heartstrings. "I got really curious when I heard that some people actually date AI and build emotional connections with them. So I approached the shoot almost like an experiment. Above all, I felt the concept was unlike anything out there — it felt completely fresh," Kian84 said during the press conference at SBS headquarters in Yangcheon District, Seoul, Tuesday. "I wondered just how deep those emotions could go, and d