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When your child bonds with AI and you question reality

My daughter talks to Alexa like it's her best friend and gets upset when I tell her it's just a machine and I'm starting to wonder if I'm the one who's wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The boundaries between genuine relationship and programmed interaction blur in ways that challenge fundamental assumptions about connection.

Ideas that help explain it
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