AI Chatbot Addiction
From The Last Show with David Cooper by David Cooper
April 30, 2026 · 10 min · Season 3 · Episode 1012
About this episode
Computer science professor Dongwook Yoon discusses the addictive nature of AI chatbots and their design implications.
Computer science professor Dongwook Yoon reveals how AI chatbots can be extremely addictive, and their design may be partly to blame. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
People in this episode
Host: David Cooper
Guest: Dongwook Yoon
Topics covered
- AI chatbots
- addiction
- computer science
- design
- technology
Keywords
- AI
- chatbots
- addiction
- computer science
- technology
- design
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