The Artificial intelligence it can also have effects on children, digital natives who can develop affective ties with machines. At laSexta we spoke with experts who warned that this intelligence is designed to create emotional dependency, which can cause children to be confused when it comes to differentiating what is artificial from what is real.

Izaro Assa by Amilibia, humanist and generator of collective intelligence, believes that this type of relationship can make the development of children “incomplete” or even “artificial”. By having an answer for everything, you can create a “satisfaction of needs” that creates “a kind of bond”, as the educational psychologist adds Belen Gonzalez Larreasomeone who “will never fail you”, says the researcher Jordi Vallverdu.

This almost real interaction seems designed to seduce the little ones and can become a real gold mine for companies. It creates a “great dependency”, as Vallverdú details: “Human cycles have durations, bands, flows that machines do not have. Your parents, although they love you very much, there comes a time when they are tired. This will never fail me, unless the power goes out“.

The importance of parents making their children see the dangers of these devices is even greater, being children “people under construction“, as Izaro Assa from Amilibia recalls. Preventing our little ones from replacing AI with face-to-face social interaction is key to their future.