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You know, this is ugly, but I'm going to say it anyway; I think that much of the American AI boom slots directly into unmet social/organizational needs. No mentors, unstable institutions, no real training, no third places, absence of trustworthy authorities, inability to cope with uncertainty, ..

28/6/26, 6:53 pm10 reposts48 likes

Rohail Khan

@imrohailkhan.bsky.social

29 June

Technology often grows fastest where institutions leave a vacuum.If people increasingly treat AI as a therapist, tutor or advisor, the real question isn't what AI has become it'swhat we've stopped providing each other.I feel so many traditional sources of guidance inconsistent or absent these days

neutral

@neutral.zone

28 June

People are under-supplied with actual human scaffolding, and the market noticed. So it becomes a kind of prosthetic for broken social infrastructure. It's probably a better solvent than glue, unfortunately.

Kevin Riggle

@kevinr.free-dissociation.com

28 June

It is certainly contributing to dissolving the bonds of trust in our society, and I have to wonder if it would have been released in its current state if those bonds had been stronger to begin with. Google durably replacing itself overnight & now turning out 10% lies and 50% mis-citations??

Singularity's Bounty e/CC

@catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com

28 June

Agree but also we've been dreaming of thinking or talking machines for 4000 years Granted there's a historic space for them to walk into, but also they are something we've been craving and obsessing about more or less as long as we've had writing

neutral

@neutral.zone

28 June

Language is a virus from outer space, after all