How to Replace Friends with Chatbots and The Rise of the Social Media Underdogs with Jag Sharma, Jen Campbell, Jason Kapadia and Felina Tan #86

Who needs friends? For the low price of an AI subscription fee, you could have all the friends you need…

Chatbots are taking the roles of friends, lovers, parental figures, therapists, mediators and career coaches, but is the tradeoff of convenience sapping our humanity from us?

We dive into a very real conversation about fake conversations on Disconnected this week, as we also set our sights on alternatives to X, from BlueSky in the west to China’s new 500m user ‘underdog’...

This episode of Disconnected covers:

• The AI companions sapping our humanity from us
• How AI can be used to teach social skills for neurodiverse people
• Whether BlueSky is a viable alternative to X, or just like everything else
• China’s new social media ‘underdog’, and whether we should be supporting it

Jag Sharma:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jagsharma
https://www.instagram.com/jagsharma/

Jen Campbell:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-m-campbell/

Jason Kapadia:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonkapadia/
https://www.instagram.com/jasonkapadia/

Felina Tan:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/felinagabrielletan/