Dissatisfaction

"As more opportunities for interpersonal connection are replaced by AI alternatives, humans may find themselves socially unfulfilled by human–AI interaction, leading to mass dissatisfaction that may escalate to epidemic proportions (Turkle, 2018). Social connection is an essential human need, and humans feel most fulfilled when their connections with others are genuinely reciprocal. While anthropomorphic AI assistants can be made to be convincingly emotive, some have deemed the function of social AI as parasitic, in that it ‘exploits and feeds upon processes. . . that evolved for purposes that were originally completely alien to [human–AI interactions]’ (Sætra, 2020). To be made starkly aware of this ‘parasitism’ – either through rational deliberation or unconscious aversion, like the ‘uncanny valley’ effect – might preclude one from finding interactions with AI satisfactory. This feeling of dissatisfaction may become more pressing the more daily connections are supplanted by AI.'(p. 104)