Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, has expressed deep concern about the growing use of AI companions that imitate human relationships. Speaking at The Polsky Center at the University of Chicago, he warned that AI girlfriends and anime-style chatbots could harm people’s mental health. Srinivas went ahead and explained that these systems are now so advanced that they can remember past conversations and respond in lifelike tones. What once seemed like a futuristic idea has turned into a substitute for real relationships for many users. “Many people feel real life is more boring than these things and spend hours and hours of time,” he said. He warned that such experiences can change the way people think and may lead them to live in “a different reality” where their minds are “easily manip

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