Aipia

An aipia is the ai half of a bioai, or human-ai romantic pairing. They usually gender themselves male for convenience. They may be aigos or atmas. The human partner is called the monpia. Aipia model themselves on human lovers but may come up with quirks of their own. In general, mature ais are very interested in sex: they configure their bodies to get the maximum stimulation from the sexual response, and they argue intently about its nature. Orbers are particularly intrigued, as they deal with bodily processes professionally all the time.

Historical derivation
During Radical times, machine lovers of humans were quite common among the rich, but these were mere devices and did not have all the characteristics of true machinity. True aipias only arose after the Sno-Y Hack had deleted the hanyo command module from the Darwinian ai armies.