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Hertz: AI companions risk conditioning humans to expect submissive relationships
“Moreover, the danger is that we'll get very used to having relationships with essentially servants who do what we want and laugh at our jokes and are much more submissive than any human relationship would be.”
Hertz: Loneliness extends beyond personal ties to workplace and civic disconnection
“There's probably nothing more lonely than being in a bad relationship or a bad marriage. Being lonely Has a sense of powerlessness attached to it. It's a sense you lack agency. It's about wanting to feel connected. Typically we think of loneliness as being wan…”
Hertz: Video call latency prevents the neural synchronization needed for empathy
“The jerkiness of our Zoom calls and the, you know, which just kind of doesn't help us, our brains be able to synchronize with each other, which
They need to do in order to feel empathetic and connected.”
Hertz: Zoom interface prevents real eye contact and makes interactions performative
“We don't look at each other when we're on Zoom, typically. Right. You know, our eye lines aren't looking at each other because of the way it's set up, and in fact, all too often we're distracted by the pictures of ourselves on our screen, turning our interacti…”
Hertz: Loneliness is rising because participation in civic institutions has dropped
“Part of the reason, of course, we're lonelier today than we were in the past is just that we do less with each other, less than we did before, so we do go to church less. We are less likely to be members of a trade union. We go less to parent-teacher associati…”
Hertz: Digital social lives hide childhood exclusion from adults
“Whereas in the past, an adult in a child's life could typically see this was going on. So you would see your child wasn't being invited out with others. So a teacher would see a child not being asked to sit with others at school today because so much of their …”