{"id":1020515,"date":"2026-07-13T11:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020515"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:48:29","slug":"chatgpt-claude-and-other-ai-chatbots-may-help-lonely-people-feel-better-but-they-cannot-offer-what-humans-can-yale-professor-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/13\/chatgpt-claude-and-other-ai-chatbots-may-help-lonely-people-feel-better-but-they-cannot-offer-what-humans-can-yale-professor-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT, Claude and other AI chatbots may help lonely people feel better, but they cannot offer what humans can, Yale professor warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of people could benefit from artificial intelligence (AI) companions to help them cope with loneliness, but becoming overly dependent on them may be detrimental to real-world social skills. An AI chatbot can provide emotional support without judgment and conflict, but a Yale University psychology professor has cautioned that continual use of systems designed to validate users could make real human relationships more difficult to navigate.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Sam Harris&#8217; Making Sense podcast, Paul Bloom, the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University, said future AI systems such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini could become a valuable tool for people struggling with isolation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of people could benefit from artificial intelligence (AI) companions to help them cope with loneliness, but becoming overly dependent on them may be detrimental to real-world social skills. An AI chatbot can provide emotional support without judgment and conflict, but a Yale University psychology professor has cautioned that continual use of systems designed to validate users could make real human relationships more difficult to navigate. Speaking on Sam Harris&#8217; Making Sense podcast, Paul Bloom, the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University, said future AI systems such as ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini could become a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020516,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020515\/revisions\/1020516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}