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891 A 2025 survey of over 1,000 US teens found 72% had tried AI companions and 52% used them regularly, but the detail that unsettled researchers was this: a third had turned to a bot, not a person, for a serious conversation

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Mal James @ Silicon Canals · 06/17/2026 16:00 EDT

A 2025 survey of over 1,000 US teens found 72% had tried AI companions and 52% used them regularly, but the detail that unsettled researchers was this: a third had turned to a bot, not a person, for a serious conversation

I am not a psychologist, a therapist, or a researcher of any kind. This is one curious adult reading a survey and thinking out loud. The numbers below come from a single nationally representative study and a few experts reflecting on it, which is to say they describe patterns across groups of people, not rules ... Read more

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