This helps explain the dissonance in Microsoft's recent Humanist Superintelligence article about creating "AI companions for everyone". https://microsoft.ai/ne

This helps explain the dissonance in Microsoft's recent Humanist Superintelligence article about creating "AI companions for everyone". https://microsoft.ai/news/towards-humanist-superintelligence/ https://microsoft.ai/news/towards-humanist-superintelligence... In an otherwise pleasant, humanist framing, they jarringly conclude Microsoft's primary AI application will be putting people into parasocial AI relationships for profit.