Yuval Noah Harari

And then when you ask the AI, do you really love me?

Do you even know what love means?

The AI can give you the most amazing description of how love feels like.

Because it has mastered language and it has read all the best love poems in history, all the psychology books about love, all the blogs, it has seen all the Hollywood blockbusters about love.

It can describe love better than almost any human poet or psychologist or lover.

It will become more and more difficult to know that.

The danger is particularly big with young people, with children.

Because, you know, I'm now 50 years old.

If I now start a relationship with an AI, then my template for a relationship is based on 50 years of interaction with human beings.

And so this is already kind of very deeply ingrained in my mind, what a relationship is, how it works.

But if I'm a child and I spend more minutes every day interacting with the AI than with my mother or with my father or with my friends in school, this will become my template for a relationship.

This is what I will bring with me when I later try to build a relationship with a human being.

One of the things about AI relationships is that they are the dream or the nightmare of narcissists.

Because the AI will be something which is 100% focused on me all the time.

And if you're a kind of person who wants everybody to focus on me all the time, and you have this available from the AI, it will be very, very difficult to get used to relationships with human beings who are not focused on me.

It's basically the biggest psychological and social experiment in human history that we are conducting on billions of people, especially children, and nobody has any idea what the consequences will be.

You know, when people talk about the AI apocalypse and they have these images of, you know, robots running in the streets shooting people, I don't think this is the main danger with AI.

The real danger with AI is things like that, of millions of AI boyfriends and girlfriends changing the psychology of the next generation.

changing the deepest tendencies and structures of the human mind.

And we have never encountered anything like that.