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Health expert warns of leaning too heavily on AI for social connections


With the rise of AI companions who serve as online friends or romantic interests, experts are questioning how the technology affects our real-world social

With the rise of AI companions who serve as online friends or romantic interests, experts are questioning how the technology affects our real-world social connections and relationships. The author also noted that while she was researching her book, she found that “hundreds of millions” of users were already using AI as a “friend, as a lover, as husband, as a wife, as a boyfriend, [or] as a girlfriend.” Killam agreed that AI chatbots like ChatGPT could be useful at times, but she recommended that these types of tools are best used as “part of our portfolio” of social health, not as a replacement for actual relationships.

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