{"id":147870,"date":"2025-08-07T12:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=147870"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:05:13","slug":"people-are-falling-in-love-with-ai-chatbots-what-could-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=147870","title":{"rendered":"People Are Falling In Love With AI Chatbots. What Could Go Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/otAWu-bLv0Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=144681\">Human-AI relationships<\/a> are no longer just science fiction. OpenAI\u2019s launch of ChatGPT in 2022 ushered in a new era of artificial intelligence chatbots from companies like Nomi, Character AI and Replika, and tech titans like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are touting chatbots on their platforms. <a href=\"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=144681\">The AI companions<\/a> have proven to be smart, quick-witted, argumentative, helpful and sometimes aggressively romantic. While some people are falling in love with the AI companions, others are building deep friendships. The speedy development of AI chatbots presents a mountain of ethical and safety concerns that experts say will only intensify once AI begins to train itself. The societal debate surrounding AI companions isn\u2019t just about their effects on humans. Increasingly it\u2019s about whether the companions can have human-like experiences. In this documentary, CNBC\u2019s Salvador Rodriguez traveled across the U.S. to interview people who\u2019ve formed emotional relationships with AI and met the founders of chatbot companies to explore the good, the bad and the unknown, and to find out how <a href=\"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=144681\">AI is changing relationships as we know them.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human-AI relationships are no longer just science fiction. OpenAI\u2019s launch of ChatGPT in 2022 ushered in a new era of artificial intelligence chatbots from companies like Nomi, Character AI and Replika, and tech titans like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are touting chatbots on their platforms. The AI companions have proven to be smart, quick-witted, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[193],"tags":[3544,4216,4215],"class_list":["post-147870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-ai","tag-ai-love","tag-human-ai-relationships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thecuriousbrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/people-are-falling-in-love-with.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":146600,"url":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=146600","url_meta":{"origin":147870,"position":0},"title":"The Ghost in the Machine: How AI Is Rewriting Our Inner Lives","author":"thebrainbehind","date":"09\/05\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"It begins with a whisper A man sits alone, late at night, conversing with an AI chatbot. 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