“Tech companies can pursue options that could keep these tools broadly available while limiting any company’s incentives to surveil, profile and manipulate its users.”

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“With A.I. companions, simple design changes could put user well-being above short-term profit. For starters, large language models should stop acting like humans and exhibiting anthropomorphic cues that intentionally make bots seem alive. Chatbots can execute tasks without using the word “I,” sending emojis or claiming to have feelings. Models should pitch offramps to humans during tender moments — “maybe you should call your mom” — not upgrades to premium tiers. And they should allow conversations to naturally end instead of pestering users with follow-up questions and resisting goodbyes to fuel marathon sessions. In the long run, these features will be better for business: If A.I. companions weren’t engineered to be so addictive, developers and users alike would feel less need to resist.”

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