> An alternative prescription would be to strip the resemblance out. Michal Luria of the Center for Democracy and Technology urges designers to drop the illusions of personality: no well-timed “hmm,” no chatbot telling you it enjoys the conversation.

No way this will happen. People building relationships with AI will be a goldmine for corporations, and for the government as it will be as easy as never before to extract value from users, or to manipulate them.

Being polite to AI is not about protecting code. It is about protecting habits, especially when frustation becomes routine daily.