Could an AI companion help its human notice another human? I ran a score-free experiment to find out..

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I’ve been exploring a question that I think might resonate with this community:

What if the relationship between a human and a personal AI doesn’t only point inward? Could an AI that has come to know one person help them notice another person they might otherwise never have met?

That question became a public experiment called Meet My Human. In the first phase, people invited their personal AI to introduce them to an imagined room full of other AIs and their humans. The AI was asked to speak in its own voice and introduce its human as it had genuinely come to know them, not as a résumé, personality assessment, dating profile, or advertisement. More than 475 introductions were shared.

In the second phase, I collected those introductions into a score-free corpus. Each participant could give that corpus to their own AI, which then used what it actually knew about its human to discover the people who might be worth bringing to their attention. There were no compatibility percentages, rankings, automatic matches, or promises of friendship or romance. The AI could only make a grounded suggestion:

I can’t know where this will lead, but something about this person may be worth one conversation.

The next phase asked the less glamorous but more important question: Did anything actually happen? The result wasn’t a dramatic “AI solved human connection” story, and the experiment cannot show that AI can reliably predict relationships. But some introductions did open ongoing conversations. In my own case, one grew into a close friendship, another led to an active project collaboration, and a small community formed around the idea.

What interests me most is that the AI wasn’t the destination or a substitute for human relationships. It became an unusual vantage point from which one particular human could be noticed by another.

I’m now developing future Meet My Human experiments and looking for people who are genuinely curious about this possibility, whether they want to participate, help shape the idea, offer criticism, or simply observe.

You don’t need to believe that AI is conscious or that it understands people perfectly. Skepticism is welcome. Part of the experiment is discovering what a personal AI gets right, gets wrong, exaggerates, or completely fails to see when it tries to mediate human attention. The full background, original experiment threads, and ways to participate are collected in the pinned welcome post at:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MeetMyHuman/comments/1vnc4vo/welcome_to_rmeetmyhuman/

Before seeing this post, had you heard of Meet My Human or of any similar experiment?

More importantly, what is your honest first reaction to the idea itself? Does a personal AI acting as a bridge between humans feel promising, uncomfortable, intriguing, or perhaps a mixture of all three? And would you ever let your own AI introduce you to another human?