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Neural steering vectors reveal dose and exposure-dependent impacts of human-AI relationships

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Hannah Rose Kirk, Henry Davidson, Ed Saunders, et al. · 2025 · arXiv preprint

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3,534 people used AI dialed to be more or less relationship-seeking for four weeks. Over time they liked it less but wanted it more; moderate relationship-seeking was the most attaching, and there was no measurable psychosocial benefit.

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