Elise Hu

Right.

So what are we losing?

Yeah, if our language practices are sort of...

undifferentiated.

We're losing the individual quirks or flair that can be in language or slang or intricacies of dialects.

Are we losing connection to each other?

Are we losing connection to a certain culture?

What's the cost of this?

Yeah, and sort of the richness and the diversity and the dynamism of being human, right?

So I guess my next question is, what do we do now?

You know, in your talk, you say that we are subconsciously now confusing the AI version of language with actual language.

And then that means, as we've been talking about, the real thing is getting closer to the machine version of the thing.

What do we do about this?

It seems like we have a collective action problem.

Who do you think is responsible for not only continuing to have these conversations, but helping make sure that the next generations coming up are media literate and hip to what's happening here?

This is actually why I haven't joined the whole wait until eighth on phones.

You know how there's this big campaign to keep kids off of screens?

I actually worry that it's making them completely illiterate until they just jump in and jump into the deep end.

Okay.

Adam Oleksik, we could talk about all this stuff with you for so much longer, but this is an excellent extrapolation and building upon your talk.