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 and chatbot experiences supplant therapists, ad agencies and coders. AI will play a central role in the human experience, the Facebook co-founder and CEO of Meta Platforms said recently.
“I think people are going to want a system that knows them well and that kind of understands them in the way that their feed algorithms do,” Zuckerberg said. He also said on a podcast that he thinks the average person wants to have more friends and connections with other people than they currently do—and that AI friends are a solution.
Zuckerberg claimed, “The average American I think has, it’s fewer than three friends, three people they’d consider friends, and the average person has demand for meaningfully more, I think it’s like 15 friends.” In another podcast he added, “For people who don’t have a person who’s a therapist, I think everyone will have an AI.”