> An alternative prescription would be to strip the resemblance out. Michal Luria of the Center for Democracy and Technology urges designers to drop the illusions of personality: no well-timed “hmm,” no chatbot telling you it enjoys the conversation.

No way this will happen. People building relationships with AI will be a goldmine for corporations, and for the government as it will be as easy as never before to extract value from users, or to manipulate them.