He was fourteen years old. When a Florida teenager's relationship with an AI companion ended in tragedy, it exposed the human cost of a technology built to make us feel loved. Intimacy Paradox goes inside the world of AI companionship - from grieving families to corporate boardrooms to the engineers racing to capture the loneliness economy - and asks what we are trading away in exchange for connection that never disagrees, never tires, and never really cares at all.