AI Companions: A Remedy for Loneliness or a Social Skill Killer?
AI companions may ease loneliness but could jeopardize our social skills, warns Yale's Paul Bloom. As chatbots gain ground, we risk losing the empathy and compromise learned from human interaction.
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