All the lonely people. Where do they all come from?

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said he hopes artificial intelligence chatbots will soon serve as buddies, therapists, and business partners for people who lack human interaction. This is from the man who hollowed out the meaning of “friend” and made much of online social interaction purely performative.

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