An unwelcome megatrend: AI that replaces family, friends — and pets

AI and modern trends are replacing mutual interaction with solitary, one-sided experiences through fake AI pets like Casio’s Moflin, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin that benefit only the owner, AI-generated social feeds such as OpenAI’s Sora 2, bot-populated “social networks” like SocialAI, solitary streaming that replaces shared movie audiences, reaction videos that simulate social watching, and video games that mimic cooperative real-world activities like farming, fishing, cooking, or cleaning without benefiting any actual people or communities.

This is the dangerous megatrend of the century and nobody is talking about it.