Daniela Amodei warns against AI girlfriends, Business Insider reports

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Anthropic president Daniela Amodei has warned that AI romantic partners risk driving people further apart, Business Insider reported. Anthropic Daniela Amodei warns against AI girlfriends, Business Insider reports Speaking to Arianna Huffington, the Anthropic president said Claude can never be a manager, a therapist or a partner. Anthropic is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, and its products and services include Claude and Claude Code.

She wants AI to free up time for people to spend with each other. October 17, 2026 - 6:48 pm Anthropic president Daniela Amodei has warned that AI romantic partners risk driving people further apart, Business Insider reported.

She spoke in a prerecorded interview with Arianna Huffington, founder and chief executive of Thrive Global. It was made for the Think Health conference in Bentonville, Arkansas, on Friday.

Daniela Amodei, Anthropic president, to Arianna Huffington AI relationships, Amodei said, are “another step further down the road of disintermediation of humans being further from one another.” What social media did Amodei said her concerns come from what she sees as the damage social media has done to human relationships.

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

Daniela Amodei It would “probably be a better world”, she said, if people spent less time with technology and more time with each other. “Claude can never be your manager or your therapist or your partner.”