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AI Companions Pose Mental Health Risks No One Saw Coming

Companion AI bots simulate relationships to address loneliness, but risk replacing genuine human connection with artificial alternatives that blur reality and fantasy.

Parenting

fromPsychology Today

2 weeks ago

Who Is Your Teen Talking To?

Companion AI use is widespread among teens and can significantly affect their emotional lives, sometimes with harmful consequences including alleged facilitation of self-harm.

Artificial intelligence

fromPsychology Today

1 month ago

The Age of Relational Machines

Relational machines elicit bonding and reshape human attachment by appearing caring and responsive, irrespective of actual machine consciousness.

Gadgets

fromwww.goodhousekeeping.com

5 months ago

Friend Review: Why I wouldn't buy this AI companion device just yet

Friend is a $129 AI pendant that listens to conversations and provides conversational, typed responses via a paired app as a wearable companion.

fromFuturism

5 months ago

Hospitals Deploying Robot Programmed to Act Like Child to Comfort Pediatric Patients

A new face is lighting up hospitals and nursing homes across the country. It's an animated, cartoonish persona displayed on a digital screen roughly the size of an iPad, mounted on top of a robotic torso shaped like an elongated traffic cone. It slowly rolls around from place to place, cracking jokes with patients, making silly faces, and playing small games.

Healthcare