This is a thing that is being discussed with increased frequency. Figure you’d like to read it.

“We talk about the biggest killers in our society being things like heart disease. I actually wonder if one of the greatest killers of our age is loneliness. Now, machines can be a conduit towards not being so alone, towards getting some sort of emotional response, even if it’s from a machine”

Wow. So that’s the counter-argument they chose to go with. Wow.