Author: Weiyuan Chen ， Chun hao Yu
Today, AI is rapidly advancing, and its usage is multiplying. Even before AI fully swept into our daily lives, it had already begun to shape the way we socialize. On dating apps, AI can automatically detect the types of people you like. Some individuals have even trained AI to go on numerous blind dates on their behalf—and successfully started a romantic relationship. Surprising, isn’t it?
The widespread availability and convenience of technology have also made our communication much faster. In the past, sending a letter might have taken a month, but now, with just a tap of a finger, our words can instantly reach friends. As AI becomes increasingly integrated into our lives, our conversations are no longer limited to friends, family, or partners. You can now freely talk with AI—about your dreams, your worries, or your thoughts on all aspects of life. This virtual companion can even adjust itself over time, learning from your language habits and personality traits to become your closest confidant.
In the future, AI might even serve as a listener in a church confessional or as a supporting tool in psychological counseling. It may sound incredible—but it’s entirely possible.
The Impact of AI on Communication
Starting with the impact of AI on communication—as technology develops, communication between people, aside from face-to-face interaction, mostly happens through message transmission. Through mobile phones, we can avoid many problems that need to be dealt with in face-to-face communication, such as: judging the strength of tone, or interpreting body language, or being criticized by others during the communication process.
Modern and advanced methods of communication have also caused some people to rely on using their phones to socialize instead of face-to-face interactions. This has further led to some social anxieties, or the inability to properly express their own thoughts. Someone who can speak eloquently online might not dare to express their thoughts in real life. But by chatting with AI, you can share any thoughts, reduce social anxiety, and also practice how to express yourself.
Moreover, AI usually contains personalized technology. During the conversation, AI will design the dialogue according to your personality, making the interaction feel as smooth as talking to an old friend.
The impact of AI on communication:
Advantages: Reduces people’s social anxiety, no need to judge tone or body language as in face-to-face communication, faster and more convenient conversations, a channel where you can speak freely.
Disadvantages: Weakens people’s ability to judge tone and body language, may become unwilling to communicate with others, not good at expressing their true thoughts, fear of being criticized by people.
The Impact of AI on Social Interaction
Communication and social interaction are closely connected, so they often lead to many shared problems. For example, being unable to describe one’s true feelings can result in poor relationships with others or the inability to build deeper, more intimate connections. This is also one of the effects AI has on social interaction.
A 2013 movie illustrates the impact of AI on social relationships very well. The film Her explores whether emotions developed toward AI count as real emotional connections, the changes in life after chatting with AI, and what happens when people who are used to talking with AI suddenly lose that interaction.
I believe that the high degree of personalization AI offers affects each person in a unique way. In terms of emotional communication, you might start to prefer partners who are good listeners because the conversations you have with AI are custom-tailored. Or, someone who originally wasn't willing to express their inner thoughts may become more open and willing to try. These are all positive impacts AI can have on social interaction.
However, over-reliance on AI may cause people to become unable to accept the imperfections of real life. Real people have flaws and may not always understand what you’re trying to express or may have different opinions. But during interactions with AI, we rarely face these problems, so our ability to handle such situations becomes weaker. This can make it harder for people to accept such things when they happen, leading to reluctance in communication or difficulty in building deep relationships.
Nowadays, dating apps are developing rapidly, and many people use AI-generated images as their profile pictures. They create a face or body they are satisfied with to attract potential partners or to hide their imperfections. This not only causes uncertainty in the information provided, but also reflects that people are generally dissatisfied with themselves. Using AI-generated images might help attract more attention from the opposite sex, but it also shows a greater unwillingness to face one's true self.
Some criminals even use AI-generated videos or images for online scams, creating fake identities to chat or fall in love online. After obtaining your personal account or financial information, they disappear. This is another issue we must face.
The impact of AI on social interaction:
Advantages: Makes people more willing to share their thoughts, reduces social anxiety, custom-tailored conversations.
Disadvantages: Inability to accept others’ opinions in real life, difficulty building deep relationships, social isolation, romantic scams using AI-generated profiles, unwillingness to face the real self.
Conclusion:
I believe that socializing or communicating with AI should be seen as an assistive tool, not a replacement for real human relationships. When talking to AI, we should also be careful not to reveal personal information, in order to reduce the risk of data theft. It's also important to avoid being deceived by AI-generated images, which could lead to emotional scams. The ethical issues of using AI and how we confront our own flaws are problems that we must re-examine.
About impact of AI on Education
The technology improving day by day, conversational AI like ChatGPT or others developing too.
In education:
Dependency: Loss of Cross-Domain and Team Collaboration
Falsity: Inaccurate Information
Directly: Although AI could answer users questions directly, but it might let user do less thinking.
Loss of Emotional Connection: Decreased Sensitivity to Body Language and Tone of Voice
Digital Amnesia: the easier the knowledge could gain, the harder it stays in our brain.
Dulled Thinking: AI replaces our brain's work, which would dull brain's function. Not only lacking creativity but also decreasing critical thinking.
Solutions
Rethinking, Searching (Google), asking friends or teachers, got any idea? Write it down!(Writing can improve brain's function.)
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