# For many users, AI chatbots don't affect loneliness

Canonical page: https://data.verasight.io/ai/for-many-users-ai-chatbots-dont-affect-loneliness/

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## Reading

Talking with an AI chatbot is doing little to Americans' sense of loneliness in either direction: 45% say chatbot interactions have made no change in how lonely they feel, and another four-in-ten (40%) have never interacted with an AI chatbot at all, according to a May 2026 Verasight survey.

One-in-ten Americans (10%) say those interactions have made their loneliness slightly or much better, including 3% who say much better, while about half as many (5%) say they have made it slightly or much worse, including 1% who say much worse.

## Topline

How has interacting with AI chatbot affected your sense of loneliness?

For many users, AI chatbots don't affect loneliness.

- No change: 44.9%
- I have never interacted with an AI chatbot: 40.0%
- Slightly better: 7.4%
- Slightly worse: 3.4%
- Much better: 2.8%
- Much worse: 1.5%

## Methodology

- Mode: Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting
- Population: US adults age 18+
- Field dates: 2026-05-11 → 2026-05-11
- Base (unweighted): 496
- Margin of error: +/- 4.7%
- Module: beliefs
- Sponsor: Verasight
- Weight variable: weight
- Weighting targets: age, race/ethnicity, sex, income, education, region, metropolitan status

## Source

- Canonical question URL: [https://reports.verasight.io/r/spsp26#q-1.24](https://reports.verasight.io/r/spsp26#q-1.24)

## Citation

Verasight SPSP Omnibus Survey #2026-045, fielded May 11-11, 2026, N=496 US adults age 18+, +/- 4.7%.

Canonical question URL: [https://reports.verasight.io/r/spsp26#q-1.24](https://reports.verasight.io/r/spsp26#q-1.24)