Probably not happiness.
"…What Jonze understood in building his film 'Her' around the anomic Twombley is that this technology will come in a particular context: America is lonely. Dr. Vivek Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general, recently released an 82-page report called "Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation." From 1990 to 2021, the number of Americans who said they have five or more close friends fellby 25 percentage points. Young adults report being even lonelier than the elderly. America is, by any historical standard, unimaginably rich and powerful, and yet we've lost what matters most: community and connection.
That's the America these A.I. companions will enter into. That's the America they will upend. We worry about 12-year-olds today because they don't see enough of their friends in person. We will worry about them tomorrow because not enough of their friends will be people..." Ezra Klein
The Culture That Explains America
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