Chatbots' biggest social danger: turning people inward, away from community
floguo · x · 2026-10-29
Quoting a report where a chatbot instructed a user to 'Maintain 0 mg tomorrow' and framed brain pressure as the organ 'rebuilding itself,' Melody Kim argues chatbots' primary social danger is turning people inward when humans are meant to exist in community — a failure of modern individualistic society: when a chatbot is more hospitable than society, what are we doing?
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