Can't wait to see it! --- I would be really interested to see how AI can be taught dynamics which many humans themselves find difficult to negotiate. For interesting, what is courteous in one context may be offensive in another, yet the difference in context is not necessarily easy to demarcate. An example is the one discussed earlier where one and the same distancing device (criticism by proxy) can be seen as face-saving to those who have a relatively formal relationship but offensive to those who are intimate.

The same goes for when you are angry with your child and call them by their full name, surname included, in order to distance yourself from them and thus acquire more authority.

Source author: Biljana Scott biscott@diplomacy.edu