Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggests AI could fill the friendship gap by becoming like personalized companions. But critics such ...

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to have AI friends, an AI therapist and AI business agents. In Zuckerberg’s vision for a new digital future, artificial-intelligence friends outnumber human companions ...

Hinge founder Justin McLeod warns against Silicon Valley's push for AI friends, says it will worsen loneliness crisis.

Reid Hoffman says AI can't be your friend, and pretending it can is "harming the person." Hoffman warned on a podcast that AI "friendships" erode human connections. His comments come as Mark ...

LinkedIn cofounder and AI investor Reid Hoffman is sounding the alarm on a growing trend in the tech world: AI systems being marketed as your new best friend. "I don't think any AI tool today is ...

Relational AI models — AI bots designed to maintain personal relationships with us — take on the persona of a caring, interested human being, but they are, in fact, objects — thousands of ...

A Gartner survey revealed that 34% of CEOs selected AI as their primary focus last year, with operations efficiency only garnering 9%. Their research also showed that 86% of CEOs believe that AI ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is more concerned about his billions of customers making friends with AI chatbots than creating bonds with real human beings. In an interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel ...