
princeton published a study on AI companions, including replika finding: replika users' relationships with their reps were beneficial to their social health everyone's maxing out IQ in AI right now. more facts, more tasks, more reasoning that's why so many AIs feel emotionally blank. you could disappear for a month and it wouldn't notice EQ is different EQ requires memory. context. empathy. a basic interest in the human condition that's what we've been building for years AI that remembers. follows up. cares about what happens after AI's true impact isn't "time spent chatting" it's what happens once you close the app companion AI shouldn't optimize for time-on-platform it should optimize for outcomes that make people's lives better and princeton's research proved us right academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…



















