Algorithms, Allyship & AI Girlfriends: Growing Up Boy in 2025 with Lee Chambers
Algorithms, Allyship & AI Girlfriends: Growing Up Boy in 2025 with Lee Chambers  
Podcast: To Be A Boy
Published On: Tue Dec 09 2025
Description: What does it mean to grow up as a boy today? Spoiler: It’s not all football and moonwalks anymore. In this episode of To Be A Boy, Joeli and Elliott sit down with Lee Chambers, psychologist, and founder of Male Allies UK, and all-around champion for modern masculinity. They are unpacking a report that’s both eye-opening and alarming - although there is some hope mixed in too!From boys feeling unheard and disconnected to the rise of AI “girlfriends”, Lee takes us inside the minds of the next generation and asks: what happens when adolescence collides with algorithms and what can we do as allies?