Relationships 5.0

Name: Relationships 5.0
ISBN: 9787573916921

伊利亚金·奇斯列夫 / 孙涵晓Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House · ChinaMay 2025

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Word count: 157K words
Chapters: 66
ISBN: 9787573916921

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Summary

When AI becomes your soulmate and care robots are treated as family, the boundaries of human emotion are being redefined by technology. Drawing on sociology, neuroscience, and ethics, this book traces the history of intimate relationships from tribal cooperation to the rise of the single society, arguing that the age of "Relationship 5.0" has arrived: AI reshapes human connections through a cognitive revolution (mimicking human thought), a sensory revolution (virtual reality interaction), and a physical robot revolution (emotionally expressive embodiment). Author Elyakim Kislev (author of Happy Singlehood) shows that this double-edged technology brings personalized emotional support while also causing social skills to degrade and raising ethical crises. Challenging conventional wisdom, the book suggests human-machine relationships may be more stable than human ones, using the film Her as a case study to explore future possibilities. A guide to future living that combines scholarly depth with real-world concern, it is suited to readers interested in the ethics of technology and the sociology of emotion.

Editor's review

This book pulls "human-machine intimacy" out of science fiction and into a sociological and ethical framework. Its value lies in resisting quick judgment: it first traces how intimate relationships evolved from tribal cooperation to the single society, then shows how technology is changing human connection through three paths—cognition, the senses, and physical robots. Continuing the author's observations on singlehood and solo living, the book affirms personalized emotional support while confronting the degradation of social skills and ethical boundaries; it reads more like a survival guide for the future than a techno-optimist manifesto. The discussion of Her gives abstract issues a tangible entry point. Read it as a map of questions rather than a set of answers: after each chapter, consider your own online habits—what has already changed, and what is merely possible. Readers interested in the ethics of technology or the sociology of emotion will find threads to pursue; those seeking a human-machine romance story may find the argument rather cool.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers concerned with the ethics of technology and AI's social impact
Social science enthusiasts studying intimacy, singlehood, and changing emotions
General readers wanting to understand how human-machine interaction reshapes daily social habits
Practitioners in product design who need to consider the boundaries of emotive interaction

Not a good fit for

Readers expecting novelistic human-machine romance plots and emotional description
Position-driven readers seeking a single techno-optimist or techno-pessimist conclusion
Practical readers who want concrete how-to guidance rather than conceptual discussion

Reading tips

Read the historical chapters on the evolution of relationships first, then move to the human-machine relationship section to understand the basis of the author's judgment.
After each chapter, write one sentence on "which of my everyday judgments has this chapter changed" to build your own list of questions.
Read the relevant cases alongside the film Her to ground abstract ethical discussion in concrete plot.
After finishing, hold a half-hour discussion with a friend focused on the technological boundaries you are and are not willing to accept.

About the publisher

Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House China · Founded in 1980

Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House is a comprehensive science and technology publisher known for academic monographs, applied technology titles and popular science books, with a focus on three areas: scholarship, popular science and science education. Judging from the books in the catalog, its publishing covers popular science, medicine, management, social psychology, Eastern philosophy and personal finance. It publishes works by overseas authors such as Douglas Hofstadter, Atul Gawande and Carlota Perez alongside Chinese writers including Liu Jian, Hu Hai, Wang Yifang and Peng Xiaohua. Representative titles include Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking, Being Mortal, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital, A Short History of the Human Body (full-color illustrated edition), and Gawande's Better and Complications, spanning cognitive science, medical humanities and the social dimensions of technology. Its distinctive approach is to connect scholarship and the general reader through popular science, valuing both ideas and readability. As public information is limited, this profile is drawn only from the books in the catalog.

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推荐序关系5.0时代，警惕人的机器化
中文版序技术革命中的情感重构与文明跨越
引言关系5.0时代，当机器成为你的另一半
如何理解关系4.0前的演变，决定我们如何理解未来
指数级增长技术，加速人类向关系5.0的过渡
我们在基于什么讨论关系5.0
第一部分从关系1.0到关系4.0，我们如何从多角关系走入单身社会
第1章关系1.0，更随意、流动性更强的多角关系
人类通过语言开创了“文化”
平等主义使人成为人
跨部落通婚与控制生育并存
一夫一妻制理论面临的挑战
多角关系，由社会需求驱动的亲密关系形式
两性关系的基础：基因选择和避免近亲繁殖
第2章关系2.0，多代同堂的“家”开始占据主导地位
农业科技发展，人类开始定居务农
财富积累和财产所有权出现，人类不再相对平等
关系2.0，“家”的出现
多代同堂，农业时代最理想的家庭结构
第3章关系3.0，核心家庭日渐重要
知识的获取与传播革命
夫妻结合是感情驱动，而非经济考虑
工业城市的崛起，核心家庭出现
城市生活导致社会碎片化，人们变得更加个人主义
关系3.0，核心家庭成为远离城市工厂的避风港
第4章关系4.0，单身社会到来
信息时代崛起，计算机、互联网和移动电话缔造了数字化世界
信息时代的思维模式使人们拥抱个人主义价值观
关系4.0，抛弃家庭生活、传统主义和长期承诺
第二部分关系5.0，三场革命重塑赛博恋人
第5章解密关系，拥抱“人造情感”
亲密关系的组成要素：受教育程度、年龄、家庭……
接纳、拥抱三场革命
技术早已在通过“人造情感”塑造我们的情感
第6章认知革命，人工智能产品越来越像人
科技如何模仿人类大脑？神经网络、深度学习和强化学习的发展
人工智能在模仿人类的注意力、记忆力、想象力……
很多人还没有意识到人工智能日新月异的变革进程
与人工智能对话，行业追求的目标是“忘记它不是人类”
人工智能正确解读人类情绪的能力快速提升
暂停我们内心“人工智能只是一个机器”的质疑
接纳、拥抱认知革命，人工智能还需要争取更多的信任
第7章感官革命，扩展现实让你身临其境
虚拟现实、增强现实、混合现实——扩展现实技术的兴起
扩展现实技术的发展，将来会有成百上千的元宇宙
问题的关键是提高人们的接受度
扩展现实将激发人们的真情实感
虚拟关系与现实关系同样有益
接纳、拥抱感官革命，关键是取其精华、去其糟粕
第8章机器人革命，人形机器人让你愿意把它当成另一半
“恐怖谷理论”，与人类过于相似反而引起最强烈的负面反应
机器人如何变得更像人类
机器人已经可以模拟人类的触感和拥抱
当机器人可以展现出肢体动作与面部表情
机器人扮演家庭成员的能力越来越强
与机器人共情
机器人的“情商”
机器人、性爱与亲密感
接纳、拥抱实体机器人革命
第9章人类如何自处？我们真正应该害怕的不是机器人，而是自己
如何实现人造生物的多样性
在隐私威胁和精神需求之间寻找平衡
我们应该放大的是人类的良知
结语人机关系的未来——爱的意义将由机器复制
致谢

FAQ

What exactly does "Relationship 5.0" mean, and how does the book define it?

In the book's framing, it refers to the stage in which AI enters human intimate relationships through three technological paths: cognition, the senses, and physical robots. Using the history of relationship evolution as background, the author shows that technology is no longer merely a mediating tool but may become an emotional object or companion, and discusses the support and risks this brings rather than offering a fixed definition.

Does this book take a pro-human-machine-relationship stance?

From the material, the author presents a double-edged-sword perspective: acknowledging that technology can provide personalized emotional support and that human-machine relationships may be more stable, while also pointing to degraded social skills and ethical crises. The book uses case studies to explore possibilities; it raises questions and maps the boundaries of debate rather than simply encouraging or opposing human-machine intimacy.

Can readers without a sociology background understand it?

Yes. The book develops its argument through film cases and everyday social phenomena, explaining concepts within the arc of relationship evolution rather than piling up jargon. Readers who keep comparing it with their own experience will follow it more easily; slow down at the ethics sections and don't feel you must finish it in one sitting.

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About the author

伊利亚金·奇斯列夫 Author · Israeli

Iliya Jin Kislev is an Israeli sociologist who teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, focusing on the single society and the transformation of interpersonal relationships. Public information about him is currently limited, and his dates of birth and death as well as his full educational background are not recorded in the available sources. His representative work, Relationship 5.0, serves as an entry point for understanding his academic concerns. Classified under social sciences, the book discusses changes in contemporary forms of social relations, examining singlehood, intimacy, and social structure together, and reflecting a writing approach that addresses real-world issues from a sociological perspective. For Chinese readers, his work offers a window into how an Israeli sociologist understands the transformation of interpersonal relationships, and suggests that the single society is not an isolated phenomenon but is intertwined with broader social change.

孙涵晓 Author · Chinese

Sun Hanxiao is a Chinese author about whom little public information is available; both the dates of birth and death and the place of origin remain unverified. Only one work can currently be confirmed, the social-science book Relationship 5.0. Judging from this title and its category, the book likely examines how relationships between people, and between individuals and society, are evolving and being reconstructed in the contemporary era, with a clear orientation toward observing real life. Because relevant materials are scarce, it is difficult to sketch the author's writing style and academic background in full. The choice of subject nonetheless suggests a tendency to discuss social relations within a changing historical context rather than at the level of abstract concepts. As far as can be seen, Sun Hanxiao's writing comes closer to social-science expression aimed at general readers, emphasizing the raising of questions and the prompting of reflection rather than the construction of a systematic theoretical framework. Although the output is small, the work offers a noteworthy angle for understanding contemporary social relations, and further publications may reveal the author's concerns and writing profile more clearly.