Of course, Miller could (and probably should) have customized the prompt to be warmer and address his wife as such, but that’s missing the larger point.

Miller didn’t really talk to his wife in this case. The AI browser took a genuine act of human kindness and turned the exchange into something that feels impersonal — largely because it is. AI is further abstracting what it means to connect. At one point, connection meant talking in person; then, around the turn of the century, it migrated to texts sent over the internet. Now humans are starting to experiment with using AI to talk with each other, and in some cases, just talking to AI — removing the need to connect with a human altogether.