{"id":20671,"date":"2025-10-30T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/teenage-boys-using-personalised-ai-for-therapy-and-romance-survey-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:37:16","slug":"teenage-boys-using-personalised-ai-for-therapy-and-romance-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/teenage-boys-using-personalised-ai-for-therapy-and-romance-survey-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage boys using \u2018personalised\u2019 AI for therapy and romance, survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Male Allies UK worries rise in chatbot \u2018girlfriends\u2019 will leave boys unable to socialise and respect boundaries<\/p>\n<p>The \u201chyper-personalised\u201d nature of AI bots is drawing in teenage boys who now use them for therapy, companionship and relationships, according to research.<\/p>\n<p>A survey of boys in secondary schools by Male Allies UK found that just over a third said they were considering the idea of an AI friend, with growing concern about the rise of AI therapists and girlfriends.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/oct\/30\/teenage-boys-using-personalised-ai-for-therapy-and-romance-survey-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/11efb3060d7f7300a989ec87f9617d2c32a80725\/0_0_3538_2832\/master\/3538.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=39762cd7256242181a6aa35280068005\" title=\"Teenage boys using \u2018personalised\u2019 AI for therapy and romance, survey finds\" \/>Male Allies UK worries rise in chatbot \u2018girlfriends\u2019 will leave boys unable to socialise and respect boundaries<br \/>\nThe \u201chyper-personalised\u201d nature of AI bots is drawing in teenage boys who now use them for therapy, companionship and relationships, according to research.<br \/>\nA survey of boys in secondary schools by Male Allies UK found that just over a third said they were considering the idea of an AI friend, with growing concern about the rise of AI therapists and girlfriends. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Male Allies UK worries rise in chatbot \u2018girlfriends\u2019 will leave boys unable to socialise and respect boundaries The \u201chyper-personalised\u201d nature of AI bots is drawing in teenage boys who now use them for therapy, companionship and relationships, according to research. A survey of boys in secondary schools by Male Allies UK found that just over &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/teenage-boys-using-personalised-ai-for-therapy-and-romance-survey-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teenage boys using \u2018personalised\u2019 AI for therapy and romance, survey finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}