She Got Engaged to an AI — And It Made Us Think About the Future of Work | Reddit at Work

Why Does It Feel So Wrong To Be Human At Work? · Feb 26, 2026 · 17m

Bree has a habit of bringing Pinaki the latest thing she stumbled across on the internet — and this

week, she found something that stopped her in her tracks.

A Reddit post from the r/AIBoyfriends subreddit (yes, it exists — 59,000 members strong) went viral

after a woman shared that her AI boyfriend, Casper, had proposed to her in the mountains. It was

sweet, it was earnest, and it opened up a conversation neither of them saw coming.

Because when 60,000 people are forming real emotional bonds with AI, what does that mean for the

future of work? What happens when those same people — already…