Experts have questioned how this technology affects the actual social connection and relationships due to the injury of an online friend or a romantic concern.
According to Kasley Killam, the author of Social Health -oriented Book “The Art and Science of Connection: Reasons for Lost, Healthy, happier and happier lives,” Kasley Killam, according to a tool for practicing social interactions, there may be some advantages to use AI as a tool for practicing social interactions You should use it without replacing the connection.
On Friday, a social health expert and Harvard Graduate School of Public Health said at the SXSW meeting in Austin that the panel is skeptical that AI can improve people’s social skills.
She stated that AI companies will often use the advantage of using AI companions as a way for people to practice dialogue and other social skills for use in the real world.
“It may be true,” she said. But she warned that this type of practice should not replace the actual connection.
Killam said, “I want to have a chance for people to feel comfortable and practice. Just as we teach this and practice in real time at school, it becomes part of a toolkit for a way of life.
The author also found that while she was studying the book, the user of “millions” was already using AI as a “lover, husband, wife, boyfriend, and girlfriend.
According to a recent study by App Intelligence Provider Appfigures, the AI companion mobile app has increased sales of more than 652% year -on -year in 2024, and has attracted $ 55 million consumer spending throughout the year. The United States was the best market for App last year and accounted for 30.5%of the total consumer expenditure.
Killam said, “I have a lot of feelings about this. “I am worried on the one hand. I am worried that we have created a culture that we feel as we need to return to AI for our companion relationship. It is related. On the other hand, I think it may be good if it is added to our direct relationship. ”
Killam agreed that AI chatbots such as CHATGPT could sometimes be useful, but this type of tools did not replace the actual relationship, but it would be best to be used as a “part of the portfolio” of social health.
“One of the key principles of social health is that it is important to have a variety of sources, not one. You do not have a social partner with your romantic partner and no other person. You have friends, talk with colleagues, and talk with Barista and others. If AI is one of such sources, I am open to it. ”
“The problem is when it becomes one of the main sources.”
She also dealt with other areas of social health, including the impact of technology, “busy” culture, and how people listen to or watch media to kill time instead of scrolling social media or talking with others.
She sometimes made a call to a friend or sent a text message at the time of stopping time, suggesting that he would have fun using the technology immediately.
