{"id":21591,"date":"2026-01-15T17:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/ai-as-a-life-coach-experts-share-what-works-what-doesnt-and-what-to-look-out-for\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:37:17","slug":"ai-as-a-life-coach-experts-share-what-works-what-doesnt-and-what-to-look-out-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/ai-as-a-life-coach-experts-share-what-works-what-doesnt-and-what-to-look-out-for\/","title":{"rendered":"AI as a life coach: experts share what works, what doesn\u2019t and what to look out for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s becoming more common for people to use AI chatbots for personal guidance \u2013 but this doesn\u2019t come without risks<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re like a lot of people, you\u2019ve probably ditched your new year resolutions by now. Setting goals is hard; keeping them is harder \u2013 and failure <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC8490751\/\">can bring about<\/a> icky feelings about yourself.<\/p>\n<p>This year, in an effort to game the system and tilt the scales toward success, some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AX1sZd1928g\">people<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ChatGPTPromptGenius\/comments\/1ph3ivm\/annual_goal_setting_prompt\/\">used<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/ai\/i-asked-ai-to-help-me-come-up-with-my-new-years-resolutions-the-results-were-genuinely-useful-and-achievable\">AI<\/a> for their 2026 resolutions. It\u2019s the latest step in an ongoing trend: in September 2025, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w34255\">findings<\/a> showing that using the AI chatbot for personal guidance is very common.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/wellness\/2026\/jan\/15\/ai-life-coach\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a78a0587320514bd41ee10e0e2dfd0a55697fb97\/0_0_3000_2400\/master\/3000.png?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bb2fc716e7910b0dc8858c0c62c3924f\" title=\"AI as a life coach: experts share what works, what doesn\u2019t and what to look out for\" \/>It\u2019s becoming more common for people to use AI chatbots for personal guidance \u2013 but this doesn\u2019t come without risks<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re like a lot of people, you\u2019ve probably ditched your new year resolutions by now. Setting goals is hard; keeping them is harder \u2013 and failure can bring about icky feelings about yourself.<br \/>\nThis year, in an effort to game the system and tilt the scales toward success, some people used AI for their 2026 resolutions. It\u2019s the latest step in an ongoing trend: in September 2025, OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released findings showing that using the AI chatbot for personal guidance is very common. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s becoming more common for people to use AI chatbots for personal guidance \u2013 but this doesn\u2019t come without risks If you\u2019re like a lot of people, you\u2019ve probably ditched your new year resolutions by now. Setting goals is hard; keeping them is harder \u2013 and failure can bring about icky feelings about yourself. This &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/ai-as-a-life-coach-experts-share-what-works-what-doesnt-and-what-to-look-out-for\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI as a life coach: experts share what works, what doesn\u2019t and what to look out for<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21592,"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\/21591"}],"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=21591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}