Apropos (on the level of relating with humans rather than....) though not specific to AI & sub-agents. Vintage. Pithy.
But from a #psychology / #behavior perspective, IMM it's related. Like talking with Alexa or Siri, or AliceBot, or 'social media' - but more likely to be insidious, or harmful when people are manipulated, and even addicted to an AI "friend".
Author, composer and computer scientist Jaron Lanier has been an opponent of privacy invasion and data-mining as a business model._
JARON LANIER: If our species is going to survive, it's going to be because we learn how to have sane conversations with one another. And the way social media is today does not allow that. And it's, I believe, destroying our future. Not everyone can afford to delete their accounts on social media because they might have a dependency of one sort or another. If you can delete, however, I think you have a duty to delete. Not only are you gradually nudging us all in the right direction, but in learning how to live your life without these accounts, you're also pioneering what it's like to live without them. And other people can learn from you. So it's really important that more and more people do it.
Jaron Lanier's argument for getting off Facebook
In his new book "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now," author Jaron Lanier makes his case for the problems with social media.PBS News
