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AI ‘companions’ promise to combat loneliness, but history shows the dangers of one-way relationships

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Feb. 12, 2024, 1:26 p.m. | Anna Mae Duane, Director, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute; Professor of English, University of Connecticut

Artificial intelligence (AI) – The Conversation theconversation.com

Tech companies are offering AI companions as a convenient cure for the loneliness epidemic, but there have been other forms of faux relationships, and they tend to have more to do with ego than heart.

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