Becker's Healthcare September 18, 2024
AI chatbots could help fight the loneliness endemic, Julian De Freitas, PhD, assistant professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School, wrote in an article for The Wall Street Journal.
Loneliness affects about 33% of adults globally and is increasing. Loneliness is known to cause depression and anxiety as well as contribute to physical problems.
“Because we aren’t doing well as a society on loneliness, we should at least keep an open mind on any tool that helps at all,” Dr. De Freitas said.
Dr. De Freitas and his colleagues at the Wharton School studied whether AI companion apps could reduce loneliness. They analyzed 50,000 app reviews to find the five most popular AI companion apps.
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