Friendships are a vital part of most people's lives. They can be complicated and messy, but a good friendship is worth it, since, as Aristotle said, "without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
Mark Zuckerberg has a potential solution for those seeking to build new friendships: building new friends using AI. That’s only a slight rewording of the viewpoint the Meta CEO is famous for, among other things, popularizing the term "friending" as a verb. With caveats about the ways human friendships offer things no AI currently can, Zuckerberg explained on a podcast hosted by Dwarkesh Patel that people like to engage with AI chatbots like Meta AI about their personal lives.
