AI Companionship & Human Connection 2025 — Emotional AI Connection by Age

This page presents an age-group breakdown for a selected survey item from the Human Clarity Institute’s AI Companionship & Human Connection 2025 dataset. Values shown are descriptive distributions only.

Emotional AI connection exposure by age

Question: Have you personally experienced, or do you personally know someone who has experienced, a deeper emotional connection with an AI tool?

Variable: ai_deeper_emotional_connection_experience  •  Overall base: n = 498  •  Type: Single-select categorical

Response 18–24
n=46 		25–34
n=130 		35–44
n=151 		45–54
n=90 		55–65
n=60 		65+
n=21 		Total
n=498
No — neither myself nor anyone I know 36 (78.3%) 95 (73.1%) 120 (79.5%) 71 (78.9%) 53 (88.3%) 17 (81.0%) 392 (78.7%)
Yes — someone I know 7 (15.2%) 21 (16.2%) 7 (4.6%) 8 (8.9%) 1 (1.7%) 3 (14.3%) 47 (9.4%)
Not sure 3 (6.5%) 8 (6.2%) 13 (8.6%) 4 (4.4%) 5 (8.3%) 0 (0.0%) 33 (6.6%)
Yes — myself 0 (0.0%) 6 (4.6%) 8 (5.3%) 6 (6.7%) 1 (1.7%) 0 (0.0%) 21 (4.2%)
Yes — both myself and someone I know 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 3 (2.0%) 1 (1.1%) 0 (0.0%) 1 (4.8%) 5 (1.0%)
Age-group base 46 130 151 90 60 21 498

Each cell shows count and column percentage (within age group). Missing or malformed responses are excluded from the bases.

Notes and source

  • What this page is: a non-interpretive set of age-group distributions for inspection and verification.
  • Percentages: column percentages within each age group (bases shown in the header).
  • Data handling: missing responses and one malformed legacy entry are excluded from the valid-response base.

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