Anthropic's Daniela Amodei says AI girlfriends and boyfriends are a 'terrible use of AI'

Anthropic's president, Daniela Amodei, says AI girlfriends and boyfriends risk deepening loneliness by replacing real human connections.

Bloomberg/Getty Images Anthropic President Daniela Amodei criticized AI girlfriends and boyfriends.

She warned that AI companions could push people further away from real human relationships.

"I think that's a terrible use of AI and people should not do it," she said.

Anthropic President Daniela Amodei has a message for people turning to artificial intelligence for romance: Don't do it.

Speaking with Thrive Global founder and CEO Arianna Huffington, Amodei criticized the use of AI to create virtual romantic partners , warning that the technology risks driving people further apart rather.

The comments were part of a prerecorded interview for the Think Health conference taking place on Friday in Bentonville, Arkansas.

"I think that's a terrible use of AI and people should not do it," Amodei said.

AI relationships, Amodei said, are "another step further down the road of disintermediation of humans being further from one another." Amodei said her concerns stem from what she sees as the damaging effects of social media on human relationships.

Platforms like Snapchat and Instagram have increasingly replaced face-to-face interactions, while online arguments have taken the place of in-person communities, she said.

"What it's led to is a warranted skepticism from people that technology can be used to bring us closer together," she said.

"But you can also imagine that socially it would probably be a better world if we were spending less time interacting with technology and more time interacting with each other," she said.

Later in the conversation, Amodei reinforced her belief that some relationships should remain human, regardless of how sophisticated AI becomes.

"Claude can never be your manager or your therapist or your partner," she said, referring to Anthropic's chatbot.