Does that automated personal assistant still need social skills when it is no longer emailing the journalist directly, but instead talking to the journalists ow

Does that automated personal assistant still need social skills when it is no longer emailing the journalist directly, but instead talking to the journalists own automated personal assistant? I can't help feeling that in an increasingly automated world a few steps further on from what the article discusses, the importance of social skills will actually decrease rather than be a differentiator for humans any more. Imagine how poor the social skills of a generation of kids could be that are surrounded by robots doing nearly everything for them. Once people grow up spending more time interacting with robots than other people, social expectations and norms will change. Caring about that stuff could end up being something that only old people worry about. Like handwriting or sending letters or buggy whips etc.