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 ...

While Zuckerberg envisions a future where AI can replace friendships, experts caution that machines cannot replace the depth ...

One tip to encourage kids to make eye contact with others is by modeling it yourself. “They need to see that someone is giving them eye contact, that’s meeting them,” Cousins said.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said AI could fill the need for human relationships. That’s “definitely not supported by ...

In an interview with Dwarkesh Patel, Mark Zuckerberg said that AI friends wouldn’t replace in-person connections. But experts disagree. How can AI friends or companions impact loneliness?

Social AI companions are becoming more popular, but researchers with a group that advocates for kids and teens say the ...

They can be complicated and messy, but a good friendship is worth it, since, as Aristotle said, "without friends no one would ...

Those friends tend to be situational and transactional, to quote my friend Lynn Sweet’s useful description of Barack Obama’s ...

Because they are less enmeshed in existing structures, teenagers tend to be more willing to play around with new technology – ...

Chris Pelkey, 37, was fatally shot in November 2021 during a road rage incident in Chandler, Arizona. On May 1, his AI ...

"I do not," Sam Altman replied when asked if he'd want his son's best friend to be an AI chatbot.