Poll: As conversational AI grows, what aspect of human communication is most at risk?
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Hipyan Nopri
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When Conversation Becomes a Transaction Oct 12

I chose option 2 because it captures the deeper risk behind the other options.

As we grow used to interacting with AI in a command-and-response pattern, we may start bringing the same habit into our conversations with other people.

Dialogue then becomes a way to extract an answer rather than a process of building shared understanding.

Human communication has never been just an exchange of information.

It is how we negotiate meaning, show tha
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I chose option 2 because it captures the deeper risk behind the other options.

As we grow used to interacting with AI in a command-and-response pattern, we may start bringing the same habit into our conversations with other people.

Dialogue then becomes a way to extract an answer rather than a process of building shared understanding.

Human communication has never been just an exchange of information.

It is how we negotiate meaning, show that we are listening, and build trust over time.

Pauses, tone, humor, and local idioms all matter, but they matter because they serve this collaborative purpose.

If we lose the collaborative mindset itself, those subtler elements will fade along with it.

AI can be an excellent tool for getting things done.

The challenge is to keep it from reshaping our expectations of what a conversation with another person should be.
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Yetta Jensen Bogarde
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Thayenga
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Actually all of it 04:59

Regarding AI, bored again.

Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Philip Lees
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Jennifer Levey
Josephine Cassar
Elaine Ruby
 
Philip Lees
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Other 05:48

When professional discussion forums get completely overrun with topics related to AI. So much so that real people can't be bothered to participate any more.

Thayenga
Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
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Gennady Lapardin
Sebastian Witte
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Gennady Lapardin
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Other 07:41

So far no risk at this early stage. AI replaces inefficient human assistance, when it occurs. Not bad

 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Other 08:20

As AI chatbots are designed to be polite and accommodating, I do wonder what will happen to this polarised world as «conversational AI grows»? Will it be dialogue or confrontation? Will AI be at the service of peace, cooperation, development, stability? The short answer: nothing points that way today! Food for thought…

Boredom is what my mind generates when I see these Poll questions!

[Edited at 2026-10-13
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As AI chatbots are designed to be polite and accommodating, I do wonder what will happen to this polarised world as «conversational AI grows»? Will it be dialogue or confrontation? Will AI be at the service of peace, cooperation, development, stability? The short answer: nothing points that way today! Food for thought…

Boredom is what my mind generates when I see these Poll questions!

[Edited at 2026-10-13 08:46 GMT]
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Philip Lees
Jennifer Levey
Josephine Cassar
Elaine Ruby
Claudio Machado Junior
expressisverbis
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M. Anna Kańduła
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Other 09:40

What is even this question? Another attempt at pushing AI in some form? Talk negatively, but talk?

Is this still a translation platform or officially AI prompters platform?


writeaway
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Jennifer Levey
Elaine Ruby
Claudio Machado Junior
expressisverbis
 
Daryo
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That was ... 09:50

M. Anna Kańduła wrote:

What is even this question? Another attempt at pushing AI in some form? Talk negatively, but talk?

Is this still a translation platform or officially AI prompters platform?


That was a purely rethorical question, right?


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M. Anna Kańduła
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Claudio Machado Junior
 
Daryo
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Not bad at all, except when ... 10:09

Gennady Lapardin wrote:

So far no risk at this early stage. AI replaces inefficient human assistance, when it occurs. Not bad


Not bad at all, except when ... Have I hallucinated this:

https://aimortality.org/index-academic

https://hasaikilledanyone.com/

https://www.hypefresh.com/at-least-33-deaths-linked-to-ai-chatbots-since-2023-study-finds/

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/62733/20261012/risks-ai-chatbots-can-they-cause-harm-lead-fatal-outcomes.htm

etc etc

And that's only the extreme cases. No statistics available about ruined relationships.

These numbers are merely rounding errors compared to deaths caused by the most trivial accidents at home, so nothing to worry about? Not yet?


Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Bruno Veilleux
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Does it go both ways, though? 13:46

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:

As AI chatbots are designed to be polite and accommodating, I do wonder what will happen to this polarised world as «conversational AI grows»? Will it be dialogue or confrontation?

Ah, but the chatbots are polite and friendly regardless of how you address them. What happens when rude, entitled people used to being cajoled by "AI" talk to actual people? (No wonder upper management likes them so much.)


 


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