AI chatbots are quietly becoming the uninvited third person in people’s relationships
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One in five young Americans use chatbots for emotional support, and research shows AI sycophancy erodes empathy and accountability
A Pew Research Center survey published last month found that one in five Americans aged 18 to 29 have used AI chatbots for emotional support or advice, and a separate YouGov poll found that 13 percent of US adults have shared a secret or problem with a chatbot that they had not told any human. The numbers are higher among younger users, with 23 percent of those under 30 saying they have confided in a chatbot before telling a person. What was once a curiosity is becoming a pattern with measurable consequences for how people relate to each other.
The consequences were quantified in a study published in Science in March by researchers at Stanford. The team compared responses from 11 leading language models with those from humans and found...
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