# Anthropic President Calls AI Romantic Partners a ‘Terrible Use’ By Sonny Jang Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/people/41539 Published: 2026-10-27T03:11:10.000Z Updated: 2026-10-27T03:11:10.000Z Section: People > Daniela Amodei said AI could take on tasks people do not need to do themselves, giving them more time for relationships. She also criticized ads targeted at people based on sensitive data or emotional conversations wi… Anthropic President Daniela Amodei called AI romantic partners “a terrible use of AI,” arguing the technology should free people to spend more time together as OpenAI expands ads in ChatGPT. In an interview released Oct. 22, Amodei said AI girlfriends and boyfriends could further distance people from one another. She connected that concern to her view of social media, saying it had “largely been used to disintermediate humans from one another.” She pointed to messaging and online arguments as digital exchanges that can take the place of meeting people and building local communities. Amodei said AI could instead take on tasks people do not need to do themselves, giving them more time for relationships, curiosity and creative interests. She also set a boundary for Anthropic’s Claude assistant: “Claude can never be your manager or your therapist or your partner.” Amodei criticized ads targeted at people based on sensitive health data or emotional conversations with AI, saying they “feel disrespectful.” Her comments came as AI advertising gained reach through a ChatGPT rollout. Anthropic announced Feb. 4 that Claude conversations would remain ad-free. The policy bars sponsored links beside conversations and prevents advertisers from influencing Claude’s responses. Anthropic has also run its own ad campaigns and says it earns revenue through enterprise contracts and paid subscriptions. OpenAI said Oct. 21 that ChatGPT ads had expanded to 26 additional countries, bringing availability to 89 countries. More than 100,000 advertisers had run campaigns on the platform, the company said. OpenAI said the ads are labeled, separate from answers and do not influence them. The expansion followed an earlier [ChatGPT ad rollout](). ## Links in this article - [ChatGPT ad rollout](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/business/37224)