βTheyβre trying to convince people they canβt do the things theyβve been doing easily for years β to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies β to write that for you.β We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, βthat you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You wonβt know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you canβt do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You wonβt have to process grief, because youβll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways itβs going to destroy humans, long before thereβs a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people.β
Justine Bateman on AI in this article from The Guardian
