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Chatbots can exploit our most basic human drive for attachment. Here’s how to have healthier relationship with AI | Gaynor Parkin and Dave Winsborough
AI EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The article discusses how chatbots can tap into human attachment drives, leading to increased reliance and potential mental health concerns. It follows an engineer who depends on AI for decisions, prompting his manager to worry about his judgment. The piece warns about the intimacy economy created by AI and suggests ways to maintain healthier relationships with chatbots.
WHY IT MATTERS
It shows that overreliance on chatbots can impair decision-making and mental well‑being in the workplace.
This intimacy economy is tapping into the deepest parts of our intimate psychological infrastructureThe modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their workMichael* is an engineer whose company embraced the AI wave. He enjoys testing ideas with chatbots. However, recently his manager became worried about his judgement and reliance on the tech. “He literally cannot make any decision without running it past AI. He’s developed a very off-script interpreta...
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