Meta and its competitors are working on a future with a dominant presence of artificially intelligent robots on social networks

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.

Mark Zuckerberg built his career on the idea that you have friends. Now he’s concerned that you don’t have enough, so he’d like to invent some for you.