- Question
Can an AI friend help you feel less lonely?
Artificial Intelligence technology is advancing rapidly in many domains, including AI understanding of human social needs. Is it possible that AI can provide meaningful friendship to people?
Position 1 of 2
Read this position →Yes, an AI friend can help you feel less lonely
This position holds that an artificial companion can reduce loneliness. On this view what relieves loneliness is being attended to and having somewhere to put one's thoughts, and a system that listens and answers supplies that whether or not it understands.
Position 2 of 2
Read this position →No, an AI friend cannot help you feel less lonely
This position holds that an artificial companion cannot relieve loneliness. On this view loneliness is the absence of being known by someone who could have chosen otherwise, and a system that cannot choose offers only the appearance of company.