{"id":636283,"date":"2026-04-28T13:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636283\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:19:09","slug":"tell-us-have-you-become-emotionally-attached-to-ai-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636283\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell us: have you become emotionally attached to AI? | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Lots of people now use chatbots as personal assistants, sometimes to the extent that they have formed an emotional attachment to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">We would like to hear from people who converse with AI chatbots on a personal level. Have you formed an emotional bond to an AI chatbot?<\/p>\n<p>Share your experience<\/p>\n<p>You can share your experience using this form.<\/p>\n<p>Your responses, which can be anonymous, are secure as the form is encrypted and only the Guardian has access to your contributions. We will only use the data you provide us for the purpose of the feature and we will delete any personal data when we no longer require it for this purpose. For alternative ways to get in touch securely please see our <a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tips\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tips guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us how you use AI chatbots and your relationship to them <\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-t4ab9u\">Please include as much detail as possible. <\/p>\n<p>If you are happy to, please upload a photo of yourself here Optional<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-14g8jkp\">Please note, the maximum file size is 5.7 MB.<\/p>\n<p>Choose file<\/p>\n<p>Can we publish your response? <\/p>\n<p>You can add more information here Optional<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-t4ab9u\">If you include other people&#8217;s names please ask them first.<\/p>\n<p>Would you be interested in speaking to our audio and\/or video teams? <\/p>\n<p>By submitting your response, you are agreeing to share your details with us for this feature.<\/p>\n<p>Submit<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">If you\u2019re having trouble using the form click <a href=\"https:\/\/guardiannewsandmedia.formstack.com\/forms\/emotionally_attached_to_ai_chatbots\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Read terms of service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/help\/terms-of-service\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and privacy policy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lots of people now use chatbots as personal assistants, sometimes to the extent that they have formed an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-636283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}