Youth Don’t Need AI Friends… They Need Real Ones

If we could shout one thing from the rooftops, it would be this:

The idea that chatbots can substitute for connection illuminates a profound
misunderstanding of what it means to be human. It suggests that intimacy can be
simulated, that emotional safety can be programmed, that being known—truly known—
can be achieved through a product update.

It can’t.

Curious for more?  Check out the recent Op-Ed co-authored by Rural Youth Institute Executive Director Meg Taft, and Rural Futures Fund Executive Director, Don Carpenter:

Youth Don’t Need AI Friends—They Need Real Ones.

The Aspirations Incubator offers the human connection tech can’t replicate.