Media Studies can help here.
Is not 'the performance of empathy' something that is already fabricated and manipulated in fiction? When we empathize with an actor in a film, is this deception? Did the technology of the novel, radio & TV degrade or challenge our human values?

David J. Gunkel 'Society needs to stop and assess whether AI is molding us into the people we want to be...' I think is one of Sherry Turkle 's key imperatives here. How long before we start viewing ourselves through the lens of AI, a kind of technopromorphization that could alter or eliminate our

Rebekah B Leekley Sherry Turkle That's the problem. To say that ' #AI is molding us' is to impart to the technology an agency that it does not have. We are the ones who are molding us via #AI .

David J. Gunkel Sherry Turkle Is there a before technology and AI David and an after one?

Rebekah B Leekley David J. Gunkel Sherry Turkle How long before #AI can be said to have agency?
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Rebekah B Leekley David J. Gunkel Sherry Turkle When you combine meta-learning and evolutionary algorithms, AI systems could continue to learn, evolve, and improve themselves to a point where they might potentially 'out-learn' their safeguards, circumventing the very checks and balances put in place to restrain them.