India’s Youth Are Texting Chatbots for Support But This May Increase Their Social Isolation 12/12/2025 Arsalan Bukhari & Ishtayaq Rasool Avnee Singh, 25, from Punjab in northern India, begins each morning the same way: by opening an AI chatbot. For the past year, this digital companion has become her closest confidant, a space where she empties her thoughts about family tensions, work anxieties and, above all, the intense loneliness that followed the end of her […] Continue reading ->