{"id":10075,"date":"2026-01-29T04:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/ai-can-generate-a-feeling-of-intimacy-that-exceeds-human-connections\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T04:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:03:07","slug":"ai-can-generate-a-feeling-of-intimacy-that-exceeds-human-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/ai-can-generate-a-feeling-of-intimacy-that-exceeds-human-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>People can develop emotional closeness to artificial intelligence (AI)\u2014under certain conditions, even more so than to other people. This is shown by a new study conducted by a research team led by Prof. Dr. Markus Heinrichs and Dr. Tobias Kleinert from the Department of Psychology at the University of Freiburg and Prof. Dr. Bastian Schiller from Heidelberg University&#8217;s Institute of Psychology. Participants felt a sense of closeness especially when they did not know that they were communicating with AI. The results have been published in Communications Psychology.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-01-ai-generate-intimacy-exceeds-human.html\">Go to techxplore<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections People can develop emotional closeness to artificial intelligence (AI)\u2014under certain conditions, even more so than to other people. This is shown by a new study conducted by a research team led by Prof. Dr. Markus Heinrichs and Dr. Tobias Kleinert from the Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,45],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-10075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-gadgets","category-techxplore","tag-techxplore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}