AI chatbots could help with loneliness ^36.9%

www.businessinsider.com - By Thibault Spirlet - 7/9/2026, 11:31 AM

Appeal to Authority 25.7% - Appeal to Emotion 23.3% - Negativity Bias 20.6%

AI may solve loneliness, but at the cost of our people skills. Philip Dulian/picture alliance via Getty Images A Yale psychology professor says AI could ease loneliness but weaken real-world relationship skills. Paul Bloom warns AI chatbots may reduce the empathy, friction, and compromise people learn from others. Harvard and Stanford... more