I’m just saying you can’t know without data and that article is only a single number. It could turn out that chat bots are beneficial to mental health as some of the designers claim in that article.
But I agree that that’s extremely unlikely. I see it as another negative agent in the “loneliness epidemic.” Children, especially in the US, have no autonomy. They’re told it’s dangerous to go outside and are accompanied by parents everywhere they go to an absurdly old age. The internet gave them something to replace the lost real life connections with, and AI chatbots will be the next evolution of that isolation enabling technology.
But I agree that that’s extremely unlikely. I see it as another negative agent in the “loneliness epidemic.” Children, especially in the US, have no autonomy. They’re told it’s dangerous to go outside and are accompanied by parents everywhere they go to an absurdly old age. The internet gave them something to replace the lost real life connections with, and AI chatbots will be the next evolution of that isolation enabling technology.
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