Jonathan Haidt

And so the reason is because these tech companies are sensing that people aren't really happy on social media and they're thinking about getting off, right?

They're using it less because social media has become less social, more media.

So they're not really engaging as much and they're spending time doing other things.

And so The Atlantic had a fantastic piece about this.

They're billing it as the anti-social media.

So tech companies are building –

AI chatbots and calling it, it's the anti-social media.

It's a place where you can go to form deeper connections and, you know, really have someone understand you.

One of the tech leaders said that there's an unmet human need for connection and people don't have as many friends as they want to.

And so we're going to introduce friendship through AI chatbots.

There is a Reddit forum right now.

So just to back up.

AI chatbots, what we're talking about in our conversation today is the publicly available chatbots, not, you know, AI for medical care, which has, you know, breast cancer.

So many wonderful in my field and like medicine, breast cancer diagnoses and detection five years earlier through AI.

I mean, there's some amazing things coming out of AI.

This is about the publicly available conversational chatbot phenomenon.

And so Harvard Business Review found that the number one use case is not productivity, is not, you know, coding or things that you think of when you're using an AI chatbot, but it's mental health therapy and companionship.

Number one use case of AI chatbots.

So people are using AI chatbots as a life advisor, as a therapist, as a companion on Reddit, which is like the zeitgeist.

Oh, I mean, so many reasons why it's a bad thing.