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Nov 18, 2025

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Lauren Kunze, chief executive of Pandorabots, views romantic AI companions "not simply as another form of media, but as a dependency-fostering product with known psychological risks." Writing on The New York Times (open copy), she recommends a "messy, complicated, human relationship" instead of an AI companion. "We made our choice not to pursue A.I. romance," she says. "The rest of the industry must now make theirs."

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alamin rezaq

9 months ago

There is a huge psychological risk. I don't know how people fail to see that these so called emotional AIs are mass manufacturing "Artifical Intimacy". Intimacy if it is artificial and unreal always leads to deeply wounded hearts!

alamin rezaq

9 months ago

There is a damn huge psychological risk. I dont know how people fail to see these so called AIs are man