Jonathan Haidt
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There's so many red flags about AI chatbots.
And so Reddit has a forum.
It's, I think, last I checked, 45,000 people.
AI is my boyfriend.
And, you know, people who are having a relationship with their AI chatbot.
The reason it's bad, I mean, AI chatbots are, you know, where social media is about attention, the attention economy, dopamine.
What's happening with the AI chatbot phenomenon, it's that it is forming attachments.
So oxytocin is a hormone, the bonding hormone.
And we're probably going to see more data on how oxytocin is involved.
And so it is going to reshape human connection.
Yeah, there was a big Super Bowl campaign, you know, and one that was particularly interesting was the Claude, its competitor.
Betrayal was the title of that ad.
And it was a young guy talking to his older female therapist about how he has some mommy issues.
And talking about, you know, what should I do?
And so that therapist is Chachi PT.
And, you know, that pause right before answering the question, it's very comical.
And so it's, you know, she answers.
It's like the anthropomorphization of, and we can talk about what that word means, you know, comes to life.
It's like Chachi PT comes to life and answers and saying, you know, you can try this with your mother and this for, you know, difficult relationship, et cetera.
And then just says, okay.