{"id":954354,"date":"2025-08-12T11:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954354"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:57:30","slug":"sam-altman-warns-of-emotional-attachment-to-ai-models-rising-dependence-may-blur-the-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/12\/sam-altman-warns-of-emotional-attachment-to-ai-models-rising-dependence-may-blur-the-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman warns of emotional attachment to AI models: \u2018Rising dependence may blur the lines\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has raised important concerns about the growing emotional attachment users are forming with AI models like ChatGPT. Following the recent launch of GPT-5, many users expressed strong preferences for the earlier GPT-4o, with some describing the AI as a close companion or even a &#8220;digital spouse.&#8221; Altman warns that while AI can provide valuable support, often acting as a therapist or life coach, there are subtle risks when users unknowingly rely on AI in ways that may negatively impact their long-term well-being. This increasing dependence could blur the lines between reality and AI, posing new ethical challenges for both developers and society.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Altman highlights emotional attachment as a new phenomenon in AI use<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has raised important concerns about the growing emotional attachment users are forming with AI models like ChatGPT. Following the recent launch of GPT-5, many users expressed strong preferences for the earlier GPT-4o, with some describing the AI as a close companion or even a &#8220;digital spouse.&#8221; Altman warns that while AI can provide valuable support, often acting as a therapist or life coach, there are subtle risks when users unknowingly rely on AI in ways that may negatively impact their long-term well-being. This increasing dependence could blur the lines between reality and AI, posing new ethical [&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-954354","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\/954354","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=954354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}