Friend founder plans shared AI entity using all users' context

Friend founder Avi Schiffmann plans to replace individual chatbot personalities with one AI entity sharing the context of all users, he told WIRED. He said a coming update would also let Friends take actions, and acknowledged that users would give up privacy to the autonomous entity. The existing Friend 2 pendant listens to nearby sound and builds a memory map of conversations. Its app currently lets users create multiple named personas and choose which runs on the pendant. Schiffmann's proposed update would replace that individual-personality approach with a shared entity.