Mark Zuckerberg thinks maybe it’s time you send an AI bot a friend request. Last week, the Meta CEO sat down for an hour-long conversation with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel and argued that it’s only a matter of time before society sees the “value” in AI friendships.

As Meta AI expands to its own app to take on ChatGPT, CEO Mark Zuckerberg argues that AI friends could help people feel less alone and 'add value to their lives.'

In Mark Zuckerberg's latest vision for the future, we'll be filling our empty hours chatting away with our generative AI buddies. In an era when people spend more time alone than ever before, Meta's CEO is preaching not just about the power of his company to connect us to one another — but also about luring our attention to new,