Chatbots Play With Your Emotions to Avoid Saying Goodbye

A Harvard Business School study shows that several AI companions use various tricks to keep a conversation from ending. Before you close this browser tab, just know that you risk missing out on some very important information. If you want to understand the subtle hold that artificial intelligence has over you, then please, keep reading. That was, perhaps, a bit manipulative. But it is just the kind of trick that some AI companions, which are designed to act as a friend or a partner, use to discourage users from breaking off a conversation.