"For the artificial humanities, narrative agents are a particularly interesting object of study precisely because they make technology, narration and relationship inseparable. To interrogate them means, before even asking whether they are truly intelligent or empathetic, observing what happens when we begin to behave as if they were. The most interesting question, then, is not how closely we can make them resemble us, but what idea of human relationships we are embedding in the machines we ask to keep us company." artificialhumanities.com/en/…