On Friendship: Should We Befriend Artificial Intelligence?

In this paper, I argue that human friendships are superior to AI friendships on the grounds of well-being. In particular, I focus on how friendship influences our overall well-being. To justify my argument, I will parse out the following two claims in their respective sections:
(1) We ought to befriend people because they enable us to have more enriching friendships;
and,
(2) We ought not to befriend AI because we will only ever be using it as a mere means, thereby reducing the quality of our friendships.
Hand-in-hand, both arguments are meant to vindicate the intuition that human relationships ought to be prioritized over human-to-AI ones.