One Person Dialogues: Concerns About AI-Human Interactions

Potential disruptions to economic, educational, and political affairs have remained at the fore of conversations about the implications of large language models (LLMs); however, remarkably little attention has been paid to the potentially more immediate ethical, psychological, and sociological repercussions of these and similar technologies. In the following, the authors develop a number of concerns about sustained LLM-human interaction by contrasting these with ordinary conversational and social contexts. The foremost among these are ethical, especially potential losses of empathetic capabilities, but the authors note a number of possible related linguistic, behavioral, and cognitive consequences. This work is intended to stimulate further research into these questions and concludes by offering suggestions for related empirical and theoretical analyses.