Almost 10% of adults in Ireland have had a romantic relationship with an AI chatbot within the last 12 months, new research shows.<\/p>\n
The survey carried out on behalf of broadband and telecoms provider Pure Telecom reveals that a further 12% of adults wouldn’t rule out such a relationship in the future.<\/p>\n
Over 1,000 adults in Ireland were surveyed by Censuswide as part of the research.<\/p>\n
20% said they believe romantic relationships with AI would be less complicated than human ones.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, 10% said it’s a good way to practice for real life relationships.<\/p>\n
More men than women have had such relationships in the last year at 13%, compared to just 7% of women.<\/p>\n
In terms of age groups, the figure was highest among 25-34 year olds.<\/p>\n
Almost one in five of those surveyed said they speak to AI like it’s a friend, with 36% saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’.<\/p>\n
18% use it to research health symptoms and treatments, while one in ten use it as a form of therapy and to get life advice.<\/p>\n
“This research highlights the pivotal role that AI is beginning to play not just in our professional lives, but our personal ones also,” said Paul Connell, CEO, Pure Telecom.<\/p>\n
“As people and technology become increasingly integrated, and AI becomes progressively more advanced, adults in Ireland have found it to be an unexpected source of emotional connection.<\/p>\n
“The recent AI boom means that these bots are now readily accessible to all of us – and there’s no agony of waiting around for a reply,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost 10% of adults in Ireland have had a romantic relationship with an AI chatbot within the last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-324802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114986727653856145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}