I chose Ibuprofen for the analogy because it requires no prescription and there’s often no doctor involved. The reality is that most use of these tools will in

I chose Ibuprofen for the analogy because it requires no prescription and there’s often no doctor involved. The reality is that most use of these tools will involve no medical professionals, and the people using them will often be the most vulnerable to their effects, for better or worse. It seems like a potentially slippery/dangerous path for the people who need the most help if there isn’t some kind of structure and guidance from a real human and some deliberate pathway to real human interaction. And for the people who don’t need this degree of help but decide to use these bots out of convenience, it seems like the erosion of social habits will only happen faster.