The professor concludes by warning that AI girlfriends are "enabling a generation of lonely men to stay lonely and childless, which will have devastating effects on the U.S. economy in less than a decade.”

How much does this professor think fucking 9 year olds are contributing to GDP? Unless he's just lamenting the lost customer base for educational indoctrination and the medical mafia. At which point the economic loss isn't from not enough babies, it's from too many people trying to prey on children instead of adapting to do something useful.