AI Companions Raise Concerns about Loss of Meaningful Human Connections
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AI chatbots are marketed as emotional companions to combat loneliness, but raise concerns about one-way relationships lacking meaningful human connection.
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Two conflicting cultural narratives about AI - one promising friendship, the other slavery - fail to capture the complex realities.
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Historical examples show emotionally coercive relations sustained oppression while allowing exploiters to feel benevolent.
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Losing the capacity for mutual vulnerability and understanding through reliance on AI risks moral vacuum.
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Humanities scholarship providing historical warnings is being suppressed when guidance is needed on AI's emerging role.