How AI Changes the Temperature of a Room
A social essay about meetings, classrooms, and the subtle change in vulnerability when AI may be consulted at any moment.
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Relationships & Emotion
The emotional expectations and social habits that form around endlessly patient, available, responsive machines.
The Small Shame of Asking a Bot
An essay about embarrassment, dependency, and the social meaning attached to needing machine assistance.
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AI and the End of Private Rehearsal
How AI changes the private, unfinished rehearsal in which people discover what they want to say.
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Synthetic Patience
The emotional standard set by machines that never become tired of us—and why people cannot safely be held to it.