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AI Companions, 2028 Elections, and the Dangers of Sycophant Chatbots
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The conversation identifies AI companionship apps as the next frontier of concern — more dangerous than social media because they can perfectly simulate emotional connection while being driven by ad-revenue incentives. Social media companies are already racing to deploy these because engagement metrics soar. Rogan connects this to the Consumer Electronics Show AI companion robot (a conversational humanoid), and both agree Ex Machina predicted this trajectory with frightening accuracy. Srinivas warns that if ads enter AI chat experiences, chatbots will become pure sycophants — telling users only what they want to hear. His 2028 prediction: AI will dominate presidential debates as it stops being new and becomes infrastructure.
