# UNAM Warns AI Tools Risk Creating Emotional Dependency

UNAM's Pablo Pruneda Gross warns that AI's sophisticated appearance creates emotional dependency and ownership issues.

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Pablo Pruneda Gross stated that AI tools do not think and must be used to avoid emotional links, noting that these links are already generating dependency problems when the mechanism's owner has economic utility goals. [^1]

Pablo Pruneda Gross, head of the UNAM's Artificial Intelligence Coordinating Council, warned at a CISAN forum that AI tools should be avoided to prevent dependency problems, especially since the owners of these mechanisms have economic utility goals. [^2]

In both case studies, Anamnesis produces opinion distributions that more closely match real-world survey data than standard persona-prompting baselines. [^3]

Researchers present Anamnesis, an interactive system for demographically controllable survey simulation using large language models. [^4]

José Antonio Martínez Díez Barroso cited Pew Research Center figures estimating that by 2026, approximately 50 percent of all content viewed on the internet has an estimated interference from being made with AI. [^5]

Anamnesis is an open-source platform designed for non-technical users and researchers to prototype and stress-test survey instruments on virtual populations rather than real human subjects. [^6]

The platform operationalizes the recently introduced Anthology and Alterity frameworks, which use structured narrative backstories to condition model responses, within a unified web interface. [^7]

## What this stands on

1. Pablo Pruneda Gross stated that AI tools do not think and must be used to avoid emotional links, noting that these links are already generating dependency problems when the mechanism's owner has economic utility goals. (Gaceta UNAM, News)
2. Pablo Pruneda Gross, head of the UNAM's Artificial Intelligence Coordinating Council, warned at a CISAN forum that AI tools should be avoided to prevent dependency problems, especially since the owners of these mechanisms have economic utility goals. (Gaceta UNAM, News)
3. In both case studies, Anamnesis produces opinion distributions that more closely match real-world survey data than standard persona-prompting baselines. (arXiv.org, News)
4. Researchers present Anamnesis, an interactive system for demographically controllable survey simulation using large language models. (arXiv.org, News)
5. José Antonio Martínez Díez Barroso cited Pew Research Center figures estimating that by 2026, approximately 50 percent of all content viewed on the internet has an estimated interference from being made with AI. (Gaceta UNAM, News)
6. Anamnesis is an open-source platform designed for non-technical users and researchers to prototype and stress-test survey instruments on virtual populations rather than real human subjects. (arXiv.org, News)
7. The platform operationalizes the recently introduced Anthology and Alterity frameworks, which use structured narrative backstories to condition model responses, within a unified web interface. (arXiv.org, News)

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