UK Report Finds Rising Reliance on AI for Emotional Wellbeing

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to make more accurate predictions about the future and its effects on these predictions are being documented in new research from the United Kingdom’s AI Security Institute. These findings reveal an extraordinary evolution in how the technology is being used compared to how it was used in the past. 

The government-backed research indicates that nearly one in three British adults now rely on artificial intelligence for emotional reassurance or social connection. The study involved testing more than 30 unnamed chatbot platforms across a range of disciplines such as national security, scientific reasoning and technological ability over a period of two years. 

It was found in the institute’s first study of its kind that a smaller but significant segment of its population, approximately one in 25 respondents, regularly engages with these tools on a daily basis for companionship or emotional support, demonstrating that Artificial Intelligence is becoming increasingly mainstream in both personal lives.

An in-depth survey of over 2,000 adults was used as the basis for the study. 

The research concluded that users were primarily comforted by conversational artificial intelligence systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Mistral, a French company. This signals a wider cultural shift in which chatbots are no longer viewed

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