Social AI: Using AI for Mental Health and Social Sanity

Why do we use social media? To connect with friends, family and people in the circle. There are now AI being bult to simulate this experience under similar social networks.

And this means the Social AI has the value for us in variety of use cases where you have no family, friends and want to chat and feel connected and social.

Think of the simulation where you assume you have friends which are bots and family which is also a bot. So now this being a private social, you have people who can listen to you and support you.

In short a therapy group session type using the AI bot as a followers.

Let’s face it compared to past generations, current generation is more lonely as they are marrying, having kids but inside they are alone. And that is where AI wants to fill the gap. Owner of the social AI has explained that in tweets.

How this helps mental health? Say you have bad office job. And you want to vent your way up and down whenever you had the bad day. Usually in past people used to have family to discuss these things.

Today those days are gone. If you vent at home, your wife will leave you, parents will bring police on you and kids will leave you. So in such case you would have to find a place to vent and then get steam off the shoulder.

Social AI with bot followers are not going to hurt you in real life. So you can discuss and vent your way out. And this would clear your head and you have much better life outside too. Because men need to speak up and that helps out.

As of now the Social AI app is in Apple only but hopefully in near future it would also be on the Android platform too.