know there's a slice of them that could be saved and should be if you could do it. So there's a tragic part of it that's undeniable. But it's also true that you could easily imagine yourself in a situation where you're 95 and you've got nothing but pain left. You know all your loved ones died before you did. You know that sort of — you could imagine somebody saying you know what I'm going to do things on my own terms now. I don't recommend it. Don't recommend it. But you could understand it. So when I look at that number it doesn't jump out at me as a serious problem. It jumps out at me as the effect of other serious problems. You know it's effect of loneliness. So those things need to be dealt with. And sort of like the indicator for those things. I think loneliness will be dealt with and AI might be part of that.

One of the biggest wild cards of our very near future is whether AI can cure loneliness. My instinct says no, but I'm not sure. If I had to bet on it I'd say that you would register it as not human and just like art it wouldn't have meaning to you. It would be sort of like a magic trick that got boring after a while. But it is entirely possible that the quality of the artificial beings will be sufficiently good that our visual — the visual part of our mind is the dominant part of your mind. So if they make the visual perfect — and I think we're really close where the artificial being, the deepfake, looks perfect and always looks perfect. They can turn around, they can move in any direction. Once they get to the point where it's completely indistinguishable from a real person, you know that's crossing the uncanny valley. It looks like we'll get there. At that point I think that a substantial number of lonely people will choose AI companions. And believe it or not, as sad as it sounds and empty as it sounds, I think