From The New York Times:
We may finally see a shift in consumer behavior with the surging popularity of A.I. chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude. Lots of people are already conversing with the bots through text. So it’s reasonable to predict that as A.I. voices begin to sound humanlike, more people will start to talk to their computers, even in public, said Lucas Hansen, a founder of CivAI, a nonprofit that educates people about A.I.’s capabilities and consequences. [scroll for more:]
“More and more people are talking to A.I., not just as a search engine but as a conversational partner,” he said. “If you can put in your headphones and talk to it just like you’re having a phone call, then it’s less obvious to random people walking by that you’re talking with an A.I.”