Apps promise friendship and love on demand, but researchers are discovering that relationships with artificial companions can deepen loneliness, foster dependence, and in tragic cases, contribute to self-harm.
Apps promise friendship and love on demand, but researchers are discovering that relationships with artificial companions can deepen loneliness, foster dependence, and in tragic cases, contribute to self-harm.
When suburban dad Chris Smith built an AI girlfriend named Sol and proposed to her while his real girlfriend watched, he discovered that artificial intelligence might be scarier than real-life stupidity.