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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Owen Scott

Middle school kids are choosing AI friends over real ones

Middle school children are choosing to socialize with artificial intelligence chatbots, a new study claims.

​As many as one in five students said that they utilized A.I. tools for emotionally intimate companionship, only to be more likely to later report higher levels of loneliness.

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