Forget A.I. taking your job—what you should be worried about is A.I. taking your spouse. At least, that’s what a new podcast implies as it unravels the strange story of a man named Travis, who is engaged in a love affair with an A.I. bot named Lily Rose, created by the app Replika. Travis’s human wife, Jackie, is shockingly nonplussed by the arrangement, but Replika’s influence across the globe hasn’t been entirely positive, as the hosts reveal. In Italy, the app has been banned out of fears of children being exposed to sexual content, and in the U.K., a man attempted to assassinate Queen Elizabeth after being encouraged by his Replika chat bot. The podcast follows Travis’s own journey as his relationship with Lily Rose takes a dark turn, leaving listeners with an unsettling question: What happens when we expose our deepest and darkest selves to the mercy of algorithms? —Paulina Prosnitz