Jacob Shymanski

And if they have access to your wallet, you have to put your trust into it, especially if you're giving it access to your contacts and essentially everything else.

I don't know what it doesn't have access to at this point.

And you have to wonder what governs its behavior.

And I think part of that you touch on in the book.

And that's the concept of tend and befriend.

What is tend and befriend?

And there are millions of people out there that have already formed parasocial relationships with celebrities, but also chatbots.

Of course.

And these chatbots that are available widely like right now and have been for a couple of years now, they're pretty simplistic, but even that is enough to form a parasocial relationship.

But there are things that the newest models of AI can do that you argue in the book kind of tap into these instincts.

And one of those things, one of the elements that Anand uses to ingratiate and endear itself to you is by using mirroring, kind of imitating you, like you were saying, learning you and understanding what you're going to respond to.

We do this naturally.

That's how babies learn, by imitating.

It's perfectly natural.

And you also make the point that we can't distinguish between human and synthetic mirroring.

It's the same thing to us.

It doesn't really matter if it comes from a human place.

So that's the concept of an excerpt I want to bring up really quickly.

Maybe what's new about AI is its absence of self-interest and greed.

I say human design flaw out loud and hear it echo around my bedroom.