A new survey finds that 27% of U.S. adult internet users have social and emotional interactions with artificial intelligence systems, with a third of those users considering their AI bot as a friend.
I think you’re on to something. I think the next logical question to ask is - “What proportion of post-graduate non-Whites land in what kinds of roles?” Is there a reason this demographic is using AI companions more that correlates to the kinds of jobs they’re doing?
That was one thing that I wondered about for a moment, like, maybe you have people working very specific types of fields—I’d seen some papers in, like, psychology and stuff talking about human-AI interaction, and maybe this is a really hot thing to be doing to be doing in that field—but this survey was specific to “companion” uses, which I don’t think that would likely include professional use the way it was defined here:
The people who have used LLMs for social, emotional and personal purposes are known as “AI companion users” and a representative sample of 1,000 of them were surveyed to discover how they use their social bots, the nature of their relationships and the impact of their encounters with these systems.
I think you’re on to something. I think the next logical question to ask is - “What proportion of post-graduate non-Whites land in what kinds of roles?” Is there a reason this demographic is using AI companions more that correlates to the kinds of jobs they’re doing?
That was one thing that I wondered about for a moment, like, maybe you have people working very specific types of fields—I’d seen some papers in, like, psychology and stuff talking about human-AI interaction, and maybe this is a really hot thing to be doing to be doing in that field—but this survey was specific to “companion” uses, which I don’t think that would likely include professional use the way it was defined here: