Are we failing in becoming what makes us Human?

Google’s recent ad about a child using Gemini AI to express her emotions have received massive backlash. The ad titled, “Dear Sydney” shows the dad using an AI prompt while using the Google’s generative AI Tool.

So why all this fuss?

Well, for the viewers this ad gave a sense of AI taking over human’s capacity to express emotions, a critical Human skill. The father instead of teaching his daughter how to express herself, have rather chose to use an AI to write an emotional letter on her behalf. Imagine a bot writing about your aspirations, inspirations and intentions, now can we? If this is what we are into, then we might as well say that we have failed to become a human.

Shelby Palmer, a Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications; CEO of The Palmer Group says that “The idea that the father is so insecure with his own language skills that he believes AI will do a better job” boils his blood.

Is this the future AI is taking us towards? Are we going to be such incapable of expressing ourselves to an extent that AI would do a better job for us than us ourselves? Are we as a parent going to fail to teach our children how to communicate and express themselves?