Recent advances in conversational artificial intelligence have enabled forms of interaction that simulate empathy, emotional attunement, and personal understanding with unprecedented effectiveness. While these systems are often presented as tools for support, companionship, or even care, emerging empirical research suggests that frequent and emotionally significant interaction with AI may contribute to increased loneliness, reduced empathy, and the weakening of human relational capacities. This contribution examines the growing phenomenon of emotional attachment to AI through an interdisciplinary lens, combining insights from cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, and theological anthropology. Drawing on recent studies on AI-mediated persuasion, artificial companionship, and emotional dependence, the contribution argues that AI "cleans up" the inherent messiness of human relationships—conflict, vulnerability, and mutual recognition—in ways that risk flattening intimacy rather than fostering it. From an anthropological and ethical perspective, this raises fundamental questions about relationality, moral growth, and the human need for reciprocal recognition. The contribution concludes by suggesting that theological and philosophical accounts of personhood and relation can offer critical resources for assessing the promises and dangers of AI-mediated emotional support, and for rearticulating the value of authentic human presence in the age of algorithms.