You seem to assume monogamy in the sense that a person needs to break up with an AI partner to develop another relationship with a human. I think that would be unlikely.
Well, you think it’s unlikely, I think it will be the case for 20-80% people in AI relationships (wide bounds because I’m not an expert). How about AI romance startups proving this is at least as “unlikely” that 90+% people could “mix” human and AI romance without issue, on long-term psychological studies? FDA demands drug companies to prove long-term safety of new medications, why we don’t hold technology which will obviously intrude in human psychology to the same standard?
The base rate for depression alone among 12-17-year-olds alone is 20%. A company that sells an AI partner would likely be able to optimize in a way that it helps with depression and run a study to prove it.
You are arguing with the proposed policy which is not even here yet. I think barring clinically depressed people from AI romance is a much weaker case and I’m not ready to defend it here. And even if it would be a mistake to give depressed people access to AI partners, just allowing anyone over 18 to use AI partners is a bigger mistake, anyway, as a matter of simple logic, because “anyone” includes “depressed people”.
Well, you think it’s unlikely, I think it will be the case for 20-80% people in AI relationships (wide bounds because I’m not an expert). How about AI romance startups proving this is at least as “unlikely” that 90+% people could “mix” human and AI romance without issue, on long-term psychological studies? FDA demands drug companies to prove long-term safety of new medications, why we don’t hold technology which will obviously intrude in human psychology to the same standard?
You are arguing with the proposed policy which is not even here yet. I think barring clinically depressed people from AI romance is a much weaker case and I’m not ready to defend it here. And even if it would be a mistake to give depressed people access to AI partners, just allowing anyone over 18 to use AI partners is a bigger mistake, anyway, as a matter of simple logic, because “anyone” includes “depressed people”.