Professor Scott Galloway perfectly explains the danger of treating AI like your friend

AI can do a lot of things. It can write your emails. It can make your grocery list. It can even interview you for a job.

But now, more and more people are depending on AI for things that require real human qualities: life coaching, therapy, even companionship.

Scott Galloway, best-selling author and professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business, says the real problem with synthetic relationships is what they lack: any kind of struggle or challenge that comes with maintaining real relationships.

Leaning on AI

In a recent social media post, Galloway calls AI “a rabbit hole” that is “sequestering us from each other”—and while it may mimic human relationships in some ways, it may actually take up space where human beings could be. Or should be. That’s driving us