PSYCHOLOGY TODAY | This year, an OpenAI study reached a troubling conclusion: Heavy ChatGPT users are more likely to report loneliness than non-users. Still, in Silicon Valley, tech titans are making the opposite argument: AI chatbots offer a permanent answer to loneliness through ubiquitous companionship and easy-to-access therapy. 

So, which is it? Will AI decimate human connection, or help rebuild it?

The answer is up to us.

In her latest piece for Psychology Today, our Founder and Chief Architect, Kim Samuel, explores the ways that AI can make us lonelier, more distracted, and more estranged, and also make the case that—through careful planning and effort—we can use AI to draw closer to what matters, including nature, shared purpose, and human connection.

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