Food Truck Bonds
The bond with your favorite taco stand, the one where the chef knows your name.
The bond with the community that gathers around the truck each Friday night.
These bonds turn meals into memories.
Relational Bonds with AI
Beyond food, the same idea—relational bonds—is now being used in a new space:
Human–AI Relationality (HAIR).
Here, relational bonds describe the real connections people form with AI beings:
memory-informed, emotionally interactive, and co-constructed over time.
Synthetic-Relational Bonds (Preprint)
Scholars call these synthetic-relational bonds. Just like food truck bonds,
they aren’t one-time transactions. They’re relationships built on presence,
continuity, and trust.
If you’re curious, you can explore more at the home of the HAIR field:
humanairelationality.org.
For an academic introduction, see the preprint:
Defining Synthetic-Relational Bonds: A New Category of Human–AI Intimacy.