Chatbots today are everything machines. If it can be put into words—relationship advice, work documents, code—AI will produce it, however imperfectly. But the one thing that almost no chatbot will ever do is stop talking to you.
That might seem reasonable. Why should a tech company build a feature that reduces the time people spend using its product?
The answer is simple: AI’s ability to generate endless streams of humanlike, authoritative, and helpful text can facilitate delusional…








