Are We Getting Too Close to Our Chatbots?
A chatbot is displayed on the screen of an iPhone. Researchers are concerned people are getting too emotional involved with these virtual friends.
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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ellen Huet reports on researchers’ growing concerns about our emotional entanglements with virtual friends.
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