AI Companions Reduce Loneliness
arXiv (preprint), 2024 · preprint, not peer reviewed
L2of 5
- Design
- Randomised controlled trial / experiment
- Risk of bias
- Some concerns
- Sample
- Not reported
- AI type
- Companion / social AI apps
- Outcomes
- Loneliness
Authors' conclusion
“Study 5 provides evidence that both the chatbots' performance and, especially, whether it makes users feel heard, explain reductions in loneliness. Study 6 provides an additional robustness check for the loneliness alleviating benefits of AI companions.”Quoted verbatim from the abstract.
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Read the paper →https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19096v1Related
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