The exploration of AI we need is the one that grapples with the way that people will ascribe life, agency, trust to the obviously inanimate.
Think about the movie "Castaway" Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) is so alone that he makes himself a friend/god out of a volleyball with a bloody hand-print on it. He talks to it. He prays. He needs it to limit his creeping madness in isolation.
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