{"id":183184,"date":"2024-02-20T15:23:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T21:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/will-ai-companions-help-or-hurt-the-loneliness-epidemic"},"modified":"2024-02-20T15:23:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T21:23:38","slug":"will-ai-companions-help-or-hurt-the-loneliness-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/will-ai-companions-help-or-hurt-the-loneliness-epidemic","title":{"rendered":"Will AI companions help or hurt the \u201cloneliness epidemic\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1pphyvgd7-k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Can you make friends with a robot?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo study this, we asked 387 participants about their usage of AI, as well as their general experience of social connection and support.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>About a third of people are lonely. Three scholars consider whether AI can help, or if it\u2019ll just make things worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you make friends with a robot? \u201cTo study this, we asked 387 participants about their usage of AI, as well as their general experience of social connection and support.\u201d About a third of people are lonely. Three scholars consider whether AI can help, or if it\u2019ll just make things worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}