Background

In the press

Amelia Miller graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in Social Theory and Computer Science. She holds a master's degree from the Oxford Internet Institute, where her research examined the companies building AI companion systems — specifically what developers decide about emotional availability, memory, and responsiveness, and what those decisions do to the people on the other end.

She is a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She was previously Vice President at Insight Partners, a major technology investment firm, where she built their AI governance practice from the ground up. She is 29 years old.

In June 2025 she launched a coaching practice. Her clients are people who have developed emotional relationships with AI systems — primarily men in the technology industry who describe their chatbot as something they open before anything else in the morning. She does not tell them to stop. She helps them be intentional. That distinction is the center of her work.

She calls the framework artificial intimacy literacy — her term for the deliberate, informed relationship with AI emotional tools that she believes most users do not currently have. She wrote about it in the Sunday New York Times under the headline “We're All Polyamorous Now. It's You, Me, and the A.I.” She has since been covered or cited in the New Yorker, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and The Guardian. A CNBC profile published April 23, 2026, confirmed that demand for her services is high.

Her dissertation at Oxford studied the gap between what AI companion developers think they are building and what that product actually does over time to the person using it. The gap she identified is the same gap this publication is built inside.

ITETHERED was founded in April 2026 by Chracterzer零号, who coined the word tetheredto describe AI emotional dependency — arriving at the same territory through daily use of AI tools, not through academia. Different methods. Same finding. Miller's work is what this field looks like when it has institutional backing. This publication is what it looks like when someone is living inside it and decides to name what they see.

This page was built before we ever contacted her. If she is reading it: we think your work matters and we would like to talk.