it's also possible that Turing-graduate AIs could act as prosthetics for people who can't interact normally. Might unlock more human potential for all we know, there's always room for optimism.
In the universe of Greg Egan’s “Schild’s ladder”, each person’s brain is equipped with a “Mediator” AI which interfaces with other Mediators and translates each person’s body language, speech, etc. into the representation which most faithfully preserves the original intention. I think the idea is that your Mediator transmits a lot of cognitive metadata which lets the other person’s Mediator translate the intention faithfully and reduce the chance of a misunderstanding. Allows reasonable communication even between extremely diverse intelligences.
The thing that keeps it from being too dystopian is that it’s under conscious control, you could always choose to keep your thoughts to yourself or hear someone else’s original words as spoken.
The problem with books is they deus ex machina the problem without actually thinking about the ramifications of their ideas....
For example keeping your thoughts to yourself would likely be picked up instantly by the remote mediator and it would judge you in one way or another for that.
