Poll: As conversational AI grows, what aspect of human communication is most at risk? Người gửi thông tin lên tuyến đoạn: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "As conversational AI grows, what aspect of human communication is most at risk?".
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| | | | Hipyan Nopri 
Indonesia
Local time: 14:08
English to Indonesian
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| When Conversation Becomes a Transaction | Oct 12 |
I chose option 2 because it captures the deeper risk behind the other options.
As we grow used to interacting with AI in a command-and-response pattern, we may start bringing the same habit into our conversations with other people.
Dialogue then becomes a way to extract an answer rather than a process of building shared understanding.
Human communication has never been just an exchange of information.
It is how we negotiate meaning, show tha... See more I chose option 2 because it captures the deeper risk behind the other options.
As we grow used to interacting with AI in a command-and-response pattern, we may start bringing the same habit into our conversations with other people.
Dialogue then becomes a way to extract an answer rather than a process of building shared understanding.
Human communication has never been just an exchange of information.
It is how we negotiate meaning, show that we are listening, and build trust over time.
Pauses, tone, humor, and local idioms all matter, but they matter because they serve this collaborative purpose.
If we lose the collaborative mindset itself, those subtler elements will fade along with it.
AI can be an excellent tool for getting things done.
The challenge is to keep it from reshaping our expectations of what a conversation with another person should be. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Thayenga
Đức
Local time: 09:08
Thành viên kể từ 2009
English to German
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| Actually all of it | Oct 13 |
Regarding AI, bored again.
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When professional discussion forums get completely overrun with topics related to AI. So much so that real people can't be bothered to participate any more.
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So far no risk at this early stage. AI replaces inefficient human assistance, when it occurs. Not bad
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As AI chatbots are designed to be polite and accommodating, I do wonder what will happen to this polarised world as «conversational AI grows»? Will it be dialogue or confrontation? Will AI be at the service of peace, cooperation, development, stability? The short answer: nothing points that way today! Food for thought…
Boredom is what my mind generates when I see these Poll questions!
[Edited at 2026-10-13 ... See more As AI chatbots are designed to be polite and accommodating, I do wonder what will happen to this polarised world as «conversational AI grows»? Will it be dialogue or confrontation? Will AI be at the service of peace, cooperation, development, stability? The short answer: nothing points that way today! Food for thought…
Boredom is what my mind generates when I see these Poll questions!
[Edited at 2026-10-13 08:46 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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What is even this question? Another attempt at pushing AI in some form? Talk negatively, but talk?
Is this still a translation platform or officially AI prompters platform?
| | | | Daryo
Local time: 08:08
Serbian to English
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M. Anna Kańduła wrote:
What is even this question? Another attempt at pushing AI in some form? Talk negatively, but talk?
Is this still a translation platform or officially AI prompters platform?
That was a purely rethorical question, right?
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Daryo
Local time: 08:08
Serbian to English
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| | Does it go both ways, though? | Oct 13 |
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:
As AI chatbots are designed to be polite and accommodating, I do wonder what will happen to this polarised world as «conversational AI grows»? Will it be dialogue or confrontation?
Ah, but the chatbots are polite and friendly regardless of how you address them. What happens when rude, entitled people used to being cajoled by "AI" talk to actual people? (No wonder upper management likes them so much.)
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