Mr. Sean Blanchfield:

AI can be an excellent conversationalist. Certainly if you use it on voice mode now, you can have real conversation. It is always there for you and is always attentive. That is missing in a lot of people's lives. There is a lot of loneliness out there so it can be helpful, but there is a challenge that will emerge. There is always a risk of a transfer of ethical agency to something that is so anthropomorphised. There is an element of AI literacy required here. While people maybe benefit from this new kind of social interaction, they can keep their minds active and in fact even educate them, they need to be careful about who is actually in charge of that relationship and that one of them is actually a machine. It would be quite easy to stumble into grey areas there.