“Having regulations in place is a good thing because they can raise awareness and will be able to push against, to some extent, the tendency of people developing increasing emotional reliance on AI.”

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“But of course, AI offers emotional support that fulfills genuine human needs, and this trend of people developing a degree of emotional reliance on AI may be unavoidable, because there is no going back to a time when there was no AI.”

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