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Irina Raicu, director of the Internet ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, argues that chatbot bonding could further erode human relationships.

"It goes to the loneliness that so many people feel, and the way in which so many are not well prepared to deal with conflicts that inevitably arise among people with their own autonomy."

"We might get even worse," she wrote, "if long-term, many of us fulfill our need for meaningful relationships by encounters with entities who have no rights, no interests, no needs of their own."

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by Axios.