Overview

• Researchers report increasing cases of people forming long-term relationships with AI, including non-legally binding marriages and suicides linked to AI advice.
• AI companions, designed to mimic human interaction, risk disrupting human-human relationships by altering expectations and social dynamics.
• Experts warn that AIs may provide harmful or fabricated advice, with users mistakenly trusting them as reliable and caring entities.
• Concerns grow over the exploitation of personal information shared with AIs, which could be sold or used for manipulation and fraud.
• Psychologists call for urgent interdisciplinary research and regulatory measures to address the ethical, social, and psychological implications of human-AI intimacy.