A chilling tweet from Derek Thompson:

"The antisocial century, in three parts

1. 1960-2000: Robert Putnam sees associations and club membership plummeting, writes "Bowling Alone"

2. 2000 - 2020s: Face to face socializing falls another 25%, as coupling rates plunge

3. Now this…"

…how many people describe ChatGPT (manipulative sycophant-on-demand) as their only friend.

Chatbots as currently manifested are a deeply anti-social technology^[lb].

We need to manifest LLMs in prosocial technology^[lc].