AI companions aren’t just “tools” they’re competing with your friendships, your colleagues, and your dating life.

Julie Freeland Fisher (a researcher at the Clayton Christensen Institute and expert on disruptive innovation & AI’s impact on relationships). Subscribe for more long-form conversations on AI, human behavior, and the future of society.

Answer me this: AI can reduce loneliness fast… but could it quietly dismantle human connection long-term? In the comments!

Expect to learn:

–How AI companions exploit the loneliness epidemic and why that’s a classic disruptive innovation foothold.

–Why “anthropomorphic” AI changes how we relate to technology (and to each other).

–What “social capital” really is, and why it predicts opportunity, resilience, and economic mobility ...