AI Friend
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
Masters of Scale 
Big Technology 
20VC
4 statements about AI Friend, every show
Kantrowitz: AI Companions Will Become The Stickiest Consumer Tech Product
“If this technology keeps going the way that it's going the AI friend will be like the stickiest tech product.”
Sinek: AI companions hijack oxytocin to create parasocial relationships
“We know that the danger of an AI friend is forget about the dopamine that's in there as well, but now it's hijacking our oxytocin, which is all the warm and fuzzies. So when I have real emotion, With my bot, those emotions, they're real. The chemicals are flow…”
Socher: Humans will have more significant AI friends in the future
“I think we will have more significant AI friends, but I hope it's not more significant than our friendships with people.”