Mark Zuckerberg on AI: Average American Has Fewer than 3 Friends; ‘Average Person Wants More Connectivity’

(via Twitter)

EXCERPT:

ZUCKERBERG: “I think as the personalization loop kicks in and the AI just starts to get to know you better and better, I think that will just be really compelling. You know, one thing, just from working on social media for a long time, is — there’s this stat that I always think is crazy. The average American, I think, has, I think it’s fewer than three friends, three people they consider friends. And the average person has demand for meaningfully more. I think it’s like 15 friends or something, right? I guess there’s probably some point where you’re like, alright, I’m just too busy. I can’t deal with more people. But the average person wants more connectivity, connection than they have. So, you know, there’s a lot of questions that people ask of stuff like, OK, is this going to replace kind of in-person connections or real life connections? And my default is that the answer to that is probably no. I think it — you know, I think that there are all these things that are better about kind of physical connections when you can have them, but the reality is that people just don’t have the connection and they feel more alone a lot of the time than they would like.”