Vast Numbers of Lonely Kids Are Using AI as Substitute Friends

Friends without friction

Companion chatbots may weaken our ability to navigate conflict and difference—unless we make key design choices, says a new report

Echo chambers of other similarly minded people21 are already a common occurrence. But soon we will each have our own perfect echo chambers. It’s possible that these personalized AIs might ease the epidemic of loneliness22 that ironically affects our ever more connected world—just as the internet and social media connected dispersed subcultures. On

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