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Social Isolation to Rise via Use of AI Companions, Elon Research Centers Find
- Social isolation is expected to increase due to the growing use of AI companions, according to research by two Elon University research centers.
- Twenty-Seven percent of American adults engage in significant emotional or social interactions online with AI large language models like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot.
- The director of Elon University's Imagining the Digital Future Center, Lee Rainie, notes that people have long adapted digital technologies for communication, learning, work, and entertainment.
- More than half of those surveyed believe AI use will lead to greater social isolation, less trust in news media, harder job prospects, and increased mental health issues.
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Social isolation to rise via use of AI companions, Elon research centers find
(The Center Square) – Social isolation will increase as people increasingly use artificial intelligence companions, says a new study and poll from two Elon University research centers.
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Elon University: Imagining the Digital Future Center reports on ‘The Rise of AI Companions’
Elon University: Imagining the Digital Future Center reports on ‘The Rise of AI Companions’. “A new survey finds that 27% of U.S. adult internet users have social and emotional interactions with artificial intelligence systems, with a third of those users considering their AI bot as a friend.”
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