Happy to see discussion like this. I’ve previously written a small bit defending AI friends, on Facebook. There was some related comments there.
I think my main takeaway is “AI friends/romantic partners” are some seriously powerful shit. I expect we’ll see some really positive uses and also some really detrimental ones. I’d naively assume that, like with other innovations, some communities/groups will be much better at dealing with them than others.
Related, research to help encourage the positive sides seems pretty interesting to me.
Happy to see discussion like this. I’ve previously written a small bit defending AI friends, on Facebook. There was some related comments there.
I think my main takeaway is “AI friends/romantic partners” are some seriously powerful shit. I expect we’ll see some really positive uses and also some really detrimental ones. I’d naively assume that, like with other innovations, some communities/groups will be much better at dealing with them than others.
Related, research to help encourage the positive sides seems pretty interesting to me.