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Will AI end making friends online?

I hope so!

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Carl Beijer
May 14, 2025
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Mark Zuckerberg thinks that we are likely to use AI to “supplement” our existing circle of real friends:

…the average person wants more connection than they have. There's a lot of concern people raise like, ’Is this going to replace real-world, physical, in-person connections?’ And my default is that the answer to that is probably not. There are all thes…

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