{"id":5990,"date":"2025-05-30T14:28:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/?p=5990"},"modified":"2025-05-30T14:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T18:28:55","slug":"survey-plenty-of-skepticism-of-ai-in-dating-apps-especially-among-women-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/2025\/05\/30\/survey-plenty-of-skepticism-of-ai-in-dating-apps-especially-among-women-survey-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Plenty of skepticism of AI in dating apps, especially among women, survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Burt Glass<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>More than twice as many people disagree with the idea that computer-powered artificial intelligence in dating apps will lead to more successful relationships than agree \u2013 and the gap is even larger among women.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to a new opinion survey designed by the Communication Research Center at Boston University\u2019s College of Communication and conducted by Ipsos.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is playing a greater role in how dating apps find potential partners for users and is touted by their creators as a big step forward in the field. But Kathryn Coduto, an assistant professor of media science at Boston University and the survey\u2019s designer, says that uncertainty around AI has been consistent over three years of opinion surveys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople still feel like they can find a soulmate on a dating app, and at the same time they still feel largely uncertain about AI,\u201d Coduto says.<\/p>\n<p>Only one in 10 (10%) women agree AI-powered dating apps lead to more successful relationships, half that of men (20%).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong those who follow the industry, there have been whisperings about this, and the difference is small but significant,\u201d Coduto adds. \u201cThis is some of the first hard evidence that women differ from men in this arena, and it follows trends about men generally being more optimistic and present on dating apps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/plenty-of-skepticism-of-ai-in-dating-apps-especially-among-women-survey-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Burt Glass More than twice as many people disagree with the idea that computer-powered artificial intelligence in dating apps will lead to more successful relationships than agree \u2013 and the gap is even larger among women. That\u2019s according to a new opinion survey designed by the Communication Research Center at Boston University\u2019s College of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5992,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions\/5992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}