Interesting perspective on how social media and AI are working and evolving now — but there is another way – if we demand it. Your framing, as applied here relates to the poorly designed and incentivized social media that emerged and now dominate, as well as current centrally-controlled AIs. A movement toward open, interoperable middleware that empowers user agency points to that better way. Your framing seems very applicable to motivating that, as well.
Consider how middleware can enable a return of human centrality to re-enable the “genuine sociality” you describe, by restoring the role of real communities of human interaction. My article just out in Tech Policy Press, Three Pillars of Human Discourse (and How Social Media Middleware Can Support All Three) [https://www.techpolicy.press/three-pillars-of-human-discourse-and-how-social-media-middleware-can-support-all-three/] explains this in the context of social media.
Extending this to AI, my forthcoming article with Richard Whitt suggests how personal AI agents that faithfully serve their users --not their developers -- can help support and augment real human interaction with AI. That article draws on ideas in Whitt’s recent book [https://www.reweavingtheweb.net/] and paper [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4899709], as well as my Three Pillars.
Interesting perspective on how social media and AI are working and evolving now — but there is another way – if we demand it. Your framing, as applied here relates to the poorly designed and incentivized social media that emerged and now dominate, as well as current centrally-controlled AIs. A movement toward open, interoperable middleware that empowers user agency points to that better way. Your framing seems very applicable to motivating that, as well.
Consider how middleware can enable a return of human centrality to re-enable the “genuine sociality” you describe, by restoring the role of real communities of human interaction. My article just out in Tech Policy Press, Three Pillars of Human Discourse (and How Social Media Middleware Can Support All Three) [https://www.techpolicy.press/three-pillars-of-human-discourse-and-how-social-media-middleware-can-support-all-three/] explains this in the context of social media.
Extending this to AI, my forthcoming article with Richard Whitt suggests how personal AI agents that faithfully serve their users --not their developers -- can help support and augment real human interaction with AI. That article draws on ideas in Whitt’s recent book [https://www.reweavingtheweb.net/] and paper [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4899709], as well as my Three Pillars.