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Kevin Okemwa

Sam Altman doesn't want his son to have an AI "bestie" — as Microsoft plans to turn Copilot into an AI friend and companion

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, May 8, 2025. .

Generative AI is gaining broad adoption across the world, which has consequently prompted some users to foster "relationships" with artificial intelligence chatbots. Over the past few years, multiple reports have emerged online highlighting scenarios where users have befriended AI bots, and some have even indicated that they are in "fully-fledged" relationships with them.

The technology is rapidly advancing and scaling greater heights as it evolves from generating bite-sized responses scraped from the Internet to applying deeper reasoning for the most complex problems.

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