Rose Rimler

That's an anecdote.

Can this work for other people?

So that's what Julian De Freitas wanted to know.

He is a professor at Harvard Business School, and he studies how AI is used in business.

And he got really curious about this because he noticed this claim from an AI companion company that our product can reduce loneliness.

This is something unique we bring to the market.

And he was like,

Can it, though?

Like, let's test this.

So he and some colleagues, they tested this, but they actually built their own chatbot.

They made it very warm and friendly.

And Julian first tried it on himself.

He committed to talking to this bot every day for 15 minutes.

Wow.

So you felt it work on yourself.

So now we've got an N of two, but... I'm sold.

Chatbots for everyone.

But yeah, so then he and his colleagues, they designed a controlled trial to see if this rang true for other people.

So he got about 300 people in this trial, and he had them take a survey about their loneliness.

He asked them stuff like, how often do you feel isolated or left out or lacking companionship, stuff like that.