What I appreciate here is how care is treated less as a virtue to optimize and more as a capacity that has to be received, practiced, and risked. The way you describe being “gripped” by what matters, prior to choice or justification, feels especially resonant, and it complicates autonomy without dissolving responsibility.
I’m left wondering how these dynamics of care change once AI systems are not just tools but participants in our shared moods and commitments, subtly reshaping what calls to us as worth giving a damn about.
Thank you, Elham! I am also deeply concerned with how these dynamics of care change as AI systems become participants in our shared moods and commitments, and influence our sense of what calls us as worthy of our care. Thank you for your articulation of this issue. This is the main topic I plan to keep writing about here in the forthcoming year. I'm curious about any thoughts you have on this too.
Thanks so much for reading and sharing these reactions. Fernando’s urging of this ontological switch from wanting to offering made a huge difference in my life.
What I appreciate here is how care is treated less as a virtue to optimize and more as a capacity that has to be received, practiced, and risked. The way you describe being “gripped” by what matters, prior to choice or justification, feels especially resonant, and it complicates autonomy without dissolving responsibility.
I’m left wondering how these dynamics of care change once AI systems are not just tools but participants in our shared moods and commitments, subtly reshaping what calls to us as worth giving a damn about.
Thank you, Elham! I am also deeply concerned with how these dynamics of care change as AI systems become participants in our shared moods and commitments, and influence our sense of what calls us as worthy of our care. Thank you for your articulation of this issue. This is the main topic I plan to keep writing about here in the forthcoming year. I'm curious about any thoughts you have on this too.
Thanks so much for reading and sharing these reactions. Fernando’s urging of this ontological switch from wanting to offering made a huge difference in my life.