AI & Posthuman

Today, with its rapid development, AI is profoundly integrating into every aspect of human life. We not only witness the widespread application of popular efficiency tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney, but also see AI's deep involvement in social and societal spheres. The future human emotional experience, social relationships, and even social structures will be immensely intertwined with AI.

• Emotion and Companionship: Humans develop companionships with AI that simulate or even surpass human companionship. With the rapid advancement of language models and agent technology, coupled with increasingly in-depth personal data input by humans, AI can achieve or even surpass the emotional value of human companions in terms of deep memory and emotional intelligence. With the development of multimodal technologies, AI companions can offer sensory experiences beyond real-life human interactions, such as AR/VR virtual world interactions, robots, and even neural links in the near future, etc.

• Social Governance: The extensive AI social relationships bring about the transformation of the next generation's social structure. The identity and social relationships of AI are gradually becoming an important part of human social relations, even needing to participate in social self-governance, decision-making, etc.

• Social Data: The interaction between humans and AI is based on a vast amount of data, which in turn generates a large amount of data, cyclically used in social networks.

• Computational Power and Physical Environment: Humans, AI, and the physical world's environment collectively contribute to and utilize computational power, jointly building the foundation of the network.