Before we know it, worries about AI-besotted partners are going to seem really dated.
The New York Times has an Ethicist column, because of course it does. Its readers like to think of themselves as very Ethical. Socrates would have hated Trump, too. A recent Ethicist entry: “My Partner’s Dependence on Chatbots Is Becoming a Problem. How Do I Tell Him?”
Some variant of this appears in every agony-aunt column. In nearly every instance, it’s a female who is watching with alarm as her guy — who, in your mind’s eye, is a pear-shaped man wearing a fedora and a “Han Shot First” T-shirt — turns to AI for entertainment and decision-making. Like this:
Dear Person
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