Ex Google CEO warns ‘perfect’ AI girlfriend could worsen loneliness: ‘You're obsessed with her'

Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, raised concerns about the rise of the "perfect" AI girlfriends or boyfriends. The AI girlfriend captures your mind as a man to the point where she takes over the way you're thinking," Eric Schmidt, 68, said in a podcast hosted by entrepreneur and NYU Stern School of Business professor Scott Galloway. Professor Galloway asked the former Google boss if he thinks AI girlfriends could make loneliness worse and lead to bigger social problems like extremism and misogyny The billionaire, who has a net worth of over $20 billion, said that beyond a point, parents cannot control the online content that teenagers consume. US teen falls in love with AI chatbot, shoots himself to ‘come home’ to her Recently, a14-year-old boy from Florida, US took his own life after having a conversation with a life-like AI chatbot. “I like staying in my room so much because I start to detach from this ‘reality,’ and I also feel more at peace, more connected with Dany and much more in love with her, and just happier,” Sewell Setzer III, who was diagnosed with mild Asperger’s syndrome as a child, wrote in his journal, reported the New York Times.