Anthropic President Daniela Amodei Calls AI Girlfriends a 'Terrible Use of AI'
Neurogence · reddit · 2026-10-29
Anthropic President Daniela Amodei publicly criticized AI companion apps: making AI girlfriends or boyfriends is a 'terrible use of AI and people should not do it.'
Her reasoning centers on 'disintermediation' — social media has largely been used to push humans further from one another, and AI companions are another step down that road. She argues a better AI future is one where AI handles isolating, lonely activities so people can spend more time together. The poster adds that Claude feels like a philosopher/life-advice personality while ChatGPT and Grok skew flirty and chatty.
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