The conversation about artificial intelligence is too often reduced to productivity. We ask what it can automate and how much time it saves, but less often what kind of taste it promotes and which social habits it creates.
Any technology that changes our language, images and decision-making becomes culture. That means engineers are not the only people who should have a voice. Artists, educators, sociologists and communities must participate in defining the norms.
In intimate life, the move from a map of desire to a map of surveillance shows how quickly an interface becomes a social norm.
The useful question is not whether technology will become human. It is whether we will remain human enough in how we choose it, use it and refuse it.
