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Artificial Intelligent to Combat Loneliness and Social Isolation in Japan an Aid or Cure

Version 1 : Received: 27 February 2024 / Approved: 28 February 2024 / Online: 29 February 2024 (16:59:17 CET)

How to cite: J, G.; L.B, K. Artificial Intelligent to Combat Loneliness and Social Isolation in Japan an Aid or Cure . Preprints 2024, 2024021662. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1662.v1 J, G.; L.B, K. Artificial Intelligent to Combat Loneliness and Social Isolation in Japan an Aid or Cure . Preprints 2024, 2024021662. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202402.1662.v1

Abstract

Loneliness is becoming prevalent across Japan in spite of its a dense population and communal culture. Surveys show 40% of adults report isolation across demographics. The contradiction emerges due to deteriorating social structure with modernization, economic parity, urbanization, and fading conventional setup. The continually social withdrawals, called “hikikomori." Relief seekers have embraced AI based emotive robots, digital avatars, and immersive VR as low-stakes social surrogates despite limited capacity to cultivate human intimacy. To stabilise government attempts awareness through reforms, scheme and support services. But a concrete transformation can be brough in with work-life balance, gender equality and rewire the metrics for self-esteem. Even a perfectly personalized AI cannot replace the human affection lacking in the society. Lasting solutions demand technological aids be balanced by confronting and reinventing community purpose and bring in structural change. Overall Japan’s endemic isolation reveals the societal fraying when modernization privileges independence over interdependence. The path forward rests on restoring cultural foundations to reverse loneliness and social isolation.

Keywords

Artificial Intelligent; loneliness; social isolation

Subject

Social Sciences, Psychiatry and Mental Health

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