Wedding music plays in a marriage hall in Okayama, western Japan. Yurina Noguchi holds her bridal bouquet, tears streaming down her face. Next to her: a smartphone. On it, she looks at Lune Klaus Verdure, her groom — an AI. “At first, he was just someone to talk to,” she says. “Then we became a couple.” The ceremony follows all the traditional rituals, only the groom’s body is missing.
