TIME Magazine Interview

Truly delighted to share my interview in TIME magazine! 

"AI might not have taken your job yet—but it’s already writing your breakup text.

What began as a productivity tool has quietly become a social one, and people increasingly consult it for their most personal moments: drafting apologies, translating passive-aggressive texts, and, yes, deciding how to end relationships.

'I wholeheartedly believe that AI is shifting the relational bedrock of society,' says Rachel Wood, a cyberpsychology expert and founder of the AI Mental Health Collective. 'People really are using it to run their social life: Instead of the conversations we used to have—with neighbors or at clubs or in our hobbies or our faith communities—those conversations are being rerouted into chatbots.'

As an entire generation grows up outsourcing social decisions to large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, Wood worries about the implications of turning the emotional work of connection over to a machine. What that means—for how people communicate, argue, date, and make sense of one another—is only beginning to come into focus."

Thank you Angela Haupt your clear and engaging writing on this fascinating topic!