AI Won't Connect Us, It Will Commoditise Our Interactions
The notion that AI fosters deeper human connection is a fallacy, merely automating superficial exchanges.
FO Take · Score 25
AI promises to streamline everything, even our social lives. But real connection thrives on messiness, vulnerability, and unpredictable human chemistry, not algorithmic efficiency. Outsourcing emotional labour to machines diminishes genuine intimacy, reducing relationships to transactional data points. Are we optimising for connection, or just its convenient simulacrum?
The strongest counter
AI tools can facilitate connections across distances and disabilities, offering new avenues for expression and understanding that human limitations often impede.
