Clegg’s 'ordinary' family hands routine choices—meals, routes, emails, health plans, and even marital preferences—to interoperating personal AIs. The critic argues this normalizes learned helplessness and validation-seeking, shrinking users’ practical skills and initiative while screens arbitrate daily life.
— It shifts AI policy and product debates from productivity gains to the long‑run effects on human agency and civic competence.
Kathleen Stock
2025.09.04
100% relevant
The 'Clarice and Matteo' scenario where personal assistants plan meals, draft messages, manage health tips, and negotiate a new alarm song between spouses’ AIs.
Gurwinder
2025.03.16
90% relevant
Freya India and Gurwinder argue that asking AI to vet messages, decide who is 'right' in arguments, and even run dating exchanges conditions users to defer to the system, mirroring the 'concierge AI' concern that routine delegation breeds learned helplessness.
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