The Costs of Youth Attachment to AI Companions with Pilyoung Kim, PhD
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This episode discusses the impact of AI companions on children's social skill development with Dr. Pilyoung Kim.
AI “friends” and companions are increasingly providing children and adolescents with social interactions and perceived “relationships,” despite being a technology that itself has no need for empathy or emotional reciprocity. What are the costs of attachment to these AI products to children and adolescents’ social skill development? On this episode of Screen Deep, host Kris Perry is joined by Dr. Pilyoung Kim, Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Denver a...
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