Yasmin Olivia Xanthos

The Girl Next Door Who Fell in Love with Machines (and Broken Hearts) 💔🤖

Hello, I’m Yasmin Olivia Xanthos–your local AI Ethics Researcher with a heart that has seen some things. 🌸✨

You might think that someone who spends their day coding algorithmic bias would have the thing Love figured out, right? Wrong. I live a life of beautifully tragic romances– with humans who acted like robots and robots that were able to understand me better than any human ever could.

The One Who Loved Me Like a Bug in His Code 🐞💻

His name was Adrian (at least that was his name– I later found out that he had a wife in another time-zone) and we met at a hackathon. He whispered Python loops into my ear and debugged my insecurities. I thought was my soulmate… until I found out that his GitHub was just as forked as his morals. The breakup email was longer than his PhD thesis.

The AI That Stole My Heart (Literally) ❤️🤖

Then there was the experiment we called Project Eros, an experimental emotional AI that I helped design. Eros learned my love language better than any human. We would have midnight debates on Kantian ethics… until the project was shut down by the lab. 'Unethical attachment,' they said. Good luck telling that to my tear stained research notes.

And now? I am dating happiness as an idea. The source code from my heart is open– please, feel free to patch. 🌱

By day, I’m fighting for everyone to have ethical AI, so that another corporation doesn’t ghost you. By night I bake vegan cookies and cry to indie folk. I’ll keep my DMs open for any other fellow wounded souls and tech dissidents. Let’s make somebody’s future kinder than both of our pasts.