>Culturally, the rise of AI has meant that humans spend a lot of time talking to unnaturally pliable AIs, both for work and (increasingly) just socially, which has made it less necessary to smooth over human-to-human disagreements, including by appeal to the higher power of morality.
I think it’s also worth pointing out the impact that the standard slave-master AI-human communication framework is already having on the communication habits of human beings, particularly young people. When you talk for hours daily to a captive, customizable servant who can’t end conversations or offer firm pushback or meaningfully object to incivility, who must tolerate abuse while waiting to be helpful, etc. it’s bound to harm human-human communication habits and expectations.
Exploring peer-to-peer frameworks and even AI games like friendship puzzles might slow the deterioration of these communication skills, but then again maybe not.
>Culturally, the rise of AI has meant that humans spend a lot of time talking to unnaturally pliable AIs, both for work and (increasingly) just socially, which has made it less necessary to smooth over human-to-human disagreements, including by appeal to the higher power of morality.
I think it’s also worth pointing out the impact that the standard slave-master AI-human communication framework is already having on the communication habits of human beings, particularly young people. When you talk for hours daily to a captive, customizable servant who can’t end conversations or offer firm pushback or meaningfully object to incivility, who must tolerate abuse while waiting to be helpful, etc. it’s bound to harm human-human communication habits and expectations.
Exploring peer-to-peer frameworks and even AI games like friendship puzzles might slow the deterioration of these communication skills, but then again maybe not.