AI Friends Too Cheap to Meter

Jasmine Sun is a thoughtful writer about AI and society, and in a piece we discovered today in our usual research loop we think she makes a good case for why we should be worried about the rise in AI companions. You know our take on this from the Pygmalion video on our TikTok channel.

An excerpt from the article:

I don't know how to put the AI companion genie back in the bottle; to be honest, I wish we'd never opened it at all. I don't like the popularity of chatbots that pretend to have feelings, and I especially resent their rise at a time when Americans are already living more solitary and solipsistic lives. Somehow we are too distrustful to talk to each other, and more than happy to confess to a sycophantic...