A robot instead of a friend was introduced in the US.
The pub robot with artificial intelligence, intended for children from 3 to 11 years old, was introduced in the United States. He is able to talk to the child, answer his questions, play and help in learning. Moreover, the manufacturer positions it not only as an educational toy, but as a companion that can become the child's constant conversation partner.
Education cannot be reduced to the transmission of information, no matter how perfect the artificial intelligence is. After all, in the family, through relationships with father and mother, through his example, the child learns love, compassion, responsibility and the ability to distinguish between good and bad. No algorithm is able to replace the spiritual and moral bond created between parents and children, to transmit faith, to teach to live according to conscience.
Technology should serve people, not replace human relationships. And the very possibility of such a replacement from early childhood, when ideas about the world, about love, about family, about what should be relationships between people, arouses special concern.
You can teach AI to speak, describe emotions and even mimic friendships. But you can't teach a machine to love. And what a child needs is love. Real, alive, human. And it starts in the family.