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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/khalizaneka on 2025-09-03 19:31:05+00:00.

Most people focus on superintelligence or jobs disappearing, but I think the bigger shift will come from AI becoming better at social interaction than we are.

Humans are already falling socially. Everyone today spends most of our lives on screens, attention spans shrink, face to face interaction is just outright dying. Even drinking and going out is down. While that’s happening, AI is rapidly getting better at mimicking us, holding conversations, and even building relationships. I’m sure we all know someone who uses ChatGPT as a therapist.

That’s dangerous in a very different way. Once AI nails human-like social skills, it changes everything:

• Parasocial relationships with AI companions start replacing real ones.
• Content and entertainment can be generated by AI that feels alive.
• Distribution itself can be run by AI, since it will know what hooks us and what goes viral.

I feel like people don’t recognize that long term, AI-generated content and our entertainment should be looked at as the most scary reality. What happens when most of what we consume isn’t made for us by humans, but by AI that knows how to exploit us socially better than we can even understand ourselves?