AI Friends Are Not Your Friends, Here’s Why

AI companions, however enticing, are like offering someone who is cold a video of a warm fire rather than matches and tinder.
AI Friends Are Not Your Friends, Here’s Why
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Science fiction prepared us for artificial intelligence (AI) friends through films such as “Her” and “Robot & Frank.” Now, those fictional portrayals are becoming a reality.

In a recent podcast, Mark Zuckerberg proposed and endorsed the idea that Americans are in dire need of social connection, and that bots could fill the need.