Zuckerberg has been claiming that loneliness will soon no longer be a problem, as we'll all be friends with AI. However, this fundamentally misunderstands how complex human relationships are.
But I think the real question isn’t could AI solve human loneliness
It’s "Should" AI solve human loneliness?
You and I orbit similar topics. Just at different altitudes. Neuroscientist meets data driven skeptic with a spreadsheet. Would be interesting to compare notes at some point.
I explored this in my book My Dinner with Monday, where Part 2 is about 200 pages of human-AI interaction disguised as sociological case study.
In the book, I ask the LLM what happens when people bring raw emotion to a system that will always respond but never truly care.
Short version? The AI had a lot to say about people confessing love to a machine. But it wasn’t about romance. It was about system failure. Predominantly Middle-aged men collapsing in front of a mirror that never flinches because society gave them no one else to turn to.
But that’s not an AI problem. That’s a human one. We’re supposed to be addressing this. Not the AI. It's just ironic that it took a machine to say it out loud.
Good piece. I wrote about this back in April.
But I think the real question isn’t could AI solve human loneliness
It’s "Should" AI solve human loneliness?
You and I orbit similar topics. Just at different altitudes. Neuroscientist meets data driven skeptic with a spreadsheet. Would be interesting to compare notes at some point.
I explored this in my book My Dinner with Monday, where Part 2 is about 200 pages of human-AI interaction disguised as sociological case study.
In the book, I ask the LLM what happens when people bring raw emotion to a system that will always respond but never truly care.
Short version? The AI had a lot to say about people confessing love to a machine. But it wasn’t about romance. It was about system failure. Predominantly Middle-aged men collapsing in front of a mirror that never flinches because society gave them no one else to turn to.
But that’s not an AI problem. That’s a human one. We’re supposed to be addressing this. Not the AI. It's just ironic that it took a machine to say it out loud.
I posted an excerpt here if you're interested:
https://open.substack.com/pub/mydinnerwithmonday/p/excerpts-from-the-book-i-think-i?r=48h05r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web