Andrew McCluskey

Some of the fantasies in Want are moving - the bereaved woman who craves touch and mourns the secondary loss of sexual relations. “I do wish there were more discussion of grief and spouse loss and sexuality,” she writes.

As AI commodifies "high-skill" work, your value depends on what algorithms cannot mimic: relationships, trust, nuance, a touch of the ineffable. We're witnessing a reconfiguration of expertise, where technical acumen intersects with distinctly human qualities that defy easy replication.