In this episode, Dr. Bruder speaks with Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota Duluth, Dr. Alexis Elder, to discuss friendships in the digital age through the lens of Aristotelian philosophy. In this episode, they discuss how the internet changes the landscape of friendship and how AI can ethically become a social tool.

• https://www.alexiselder.net/
• Check out Alexis' Book: Friendship, Robots, and Social Media: False Friends and Second Selves - https://philpapers.org/rec/ELDFRA
• Excellent online friendships: an Aristotelian defense of social media - https://philarchive.org/rec/ELDEOF
• Check out Casey Fiesler's work on platform migration - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3392847
• Keep an eye out for updates on Dr. Elder's upcoming book - The Ethics of Digital Ghosts: Confucian, Mohist, and Zhuangist Perspectives on AI and Death

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