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AI Companions

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Before we so openly accept digital companions, maybe we should stop and think about why we need them in the first place. Is it because they're easier to deal with than humans? Because we’ve trained them to know what to do without us having to activate sulk mode?

If that's the case, maybe what we really need to do is not get better robots but become better humans and communicators ourselves.

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