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Book Warns AI Companions Weaken Human Capacity for Hard Conversations

Original: 📚️ Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines "But technology, by offering to do everything, teaches us

Discussion around the book "Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines" is resurfacing online. A quoted passage argues that technology, by offering to do everything, teaches people they neither need nor have the capacity to take risks, have difficult conversations, sit with uncertainty, or rely on their own faculties. Commenters are weighing the critique of outsourcing emotional life to machines.

Why now: Renewed anxiety about AI companions and chatbots replacing human relationships

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• 📚️ Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines "But technology, by offering to do everything, teaches us that we neither need nor have the capacity to take risks, have hard conversations, struggle through uncertainty or insecurity, or rely on our own faculties… · bibliolater@vivaldi.net · 5

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