I think eventually we'll start to see the convenience of automated personal responses as worth the slight distance it creates. It can create a new kind of gift

I think eventually we'll start to see the convenience of automated personal responses as worth the slight distance it creates. It can create a new kind of gift you give to someone, the gift of taking personal time out to craft responses. You see this sort of thing in Japanese culture already and have in traditional societies throughout history. Culture and technology create walls and the effort to scale them becomes the currency of human affection. Getting on the same page as someone on 'big' topics seems a task particularly suited to AI. Human cognition is messy, slow, and not everyone is adapted to rapid-fire social interaction. This bears real costs. If the computer could just understand what I wanted to say, taking my dumb words and turning them into nice shiny non-offensive prose, then I could maintain a lot more human connection than I do at present.