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Artificial intelligence technologies like TikTok and ChatGPT have fundamentally altered our relationship with technology in their newfound capacity to provide primitive forms of empathy. Because of this capacity to provide empathy on demand, they are no longer mere tools used as a means to an end, becoming ends in themselves. As AI technologies continue to evolve, they will pose an existential challenge to human interconnectivity, threatening to push us from human-being to human-having—creatures isolated yet seemingly satisfied by empathically insular worlds.