🤖 Can an AI truly be a friend?
In The Straits Times, SMU Associate Professor Tan Seow Hon reflects on how AI companions — designed to listen, comfort, and respond — may ease loneliness but cannot replace real human connection.
As she writes, true friendship is built on effort, empathy, and mutual care, qualities no algorithm can replicate.
👉 Read her full commentary: https://sgsmu.com/4994a2R
#SGSMU #SGSMUThoughtLeadership #AIandEthics #TechnologyAndSociety #HumanConnection
In The Straits Times, SMU Associate Professor Tan Seow Hon reflects on how AI companions — designed to listen, comfort, and respond — may ease loneliness but cannot replace real human connection.
As she writes, true friendship is built on effort, empathy, and mutual care, qualities no algorithm can replicate.
👉 Read her full commentary: https://sgsmu.com/4994a2R
#SGSMU #SGSMUThoughtLeadership #AIandEthics #TechnologyAndSociety #HumanConnection
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A fake friend? AI companions are exactly that
In a commentary, SMU Associate Professor of Law Tan Seow Hon discussed how AI companions, which promise emotionally intelligent companionship, have blurred the line between human and machine relationships by mimicking empathy, memory, and affection. She suggested…
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