Empathic AI use, impact and legal response thereto in India: A theoretical and empirical exploration of adolescents with special reference to Lucknow city

“The Machines are for us, We are not for the Machines”. AI is inevitable in today’s modern world. Technology has become akin to human shadow.  Personhood is extending to AI chatbots. Still with all the benefits and developments of AI, there are burdens and costs to be looked into by law and state.
In 2016 in Documentary film “Lo and Behold, Reveries of the connected world” directed by Werner Herzog, a question is raised, well our children’s children’s children will need the companionship of Humans? or Robots? Who are we to say? None can predict the future but whether machines be allowed to be our friends and family? Can machines be accepted to capitalize on human vulnerabilities?  Onset of Empathic AI perhaps has marked the beginning of the end of human-to-human relationships. 
In the present chapter, there are mainly four sections. The first section will consist of theoretical analysis of AI from the prism of Social Sciences and Law. The second section will contain the details of empirical study conducted by authors in Lucknow city on Adolescents. The study majorly aimed to judge the proportion and pattern of adolescents using AI and examine the psycho-social impact on them. The third section deals with evolving legal response to AI and will present a model of ethical-legal layered governance of AI. The fourth section will contain submissions for balanced use of AI to maximize the benefits and minimize the drawbacks. The chapter presents a multidisciplinary perspective to AI and intends to contribute in the evolving policies and jurisprudence of AI in India.