Survey finds generational gap in attitudes to AI romance

SHANGHAI — Almost 50 percent of young adults in six major economies think artificial intelligence (AI) romantic companionship will improve human happiness through emotional support in the next decade, the results of a large survey suggested Monday. The percentage dropped progressively across older age categories to just a quarter of people aged 55 and over, according to the research shared exclusively with AFP. Leaps in AI development have seen people turn to chatbots as confidants and lovers, while advancements in robotics are helping produce more sophisticated sex dolls — raising questions over the impact on human relationships. The survey of nearly 10,000 people across the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, Indonesia and Hong Kong provides a snapshot of this "rapidly changing moral landscape," pollsters YouGov said. It also shows "a profound ideological split between Western and Asian markets," with the latter seemingly more accepting of technologically enabled sex and romance. In terms of emotional support, 48 percent of all respondents aged 18-24 and 47 percent of 25 to 34-y

Original source: Korea Times