{"id":23,"date":"2026-07-04T23:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T23:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/fromstackstonetworks\/?p=23"},"modified":"2026-07-04T23:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T23:50:21","slug":"reflection-blog-hyperlinked-environments-is-ai-hypolinking-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/fromstackstonetworks\/2026\/07\/04\/reflection-blog-hyperlinked-environments-is-ai-hypolinking-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection Blog: Hyperlinked Environments: Is AI Hypolinking Us?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cOne of the biggest business battles of our time is between Microsoft and Google\u201d (Loertscher, 2008). Well, today in 2026, I would say that battle rages between the different AI platforms. \u201cMicrosoft believes that if they build it, we will come -and buy their product. Google\u2019s approach is different: if they built it, we will integrate it into our lives\u201d. Now, we can say that Google has remained consistent because that is indeed exactly what has happened with its AI approach. When we search for anything in Google nowadays, we are first presented with an AI overview of the response, and invited to ask follow-up questions. Only if we scroll down, we can get actual sources that would answer our question. And that is the thing: more and more often, many people will not scroll down any further. AI Gemini has been integrated into the Google Suite. A debate has been sparked at my school about Gemini and Notebook LM being added to Google Classroom students\u2019 accounts. We stop mid-task in the kitchen to ask Alexa a quick question. We call our health insurance and are kept on an AI bot until we impatiently repeat \u201cHuman agent! Human agent!\u201d into our phone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

These are all examples of how AI has infiltrated and integrated into our environments and thus our lives. AI has sometimes made itself almost indispensable for some people, or at least a go-to without a second thought. It has become instinctive, and very rapidly so (in just a couple of years). It is very interesting (but I could really think of several other adjectives) how fast this habit has taken. Some people find it fascinating and amazing, some others find it worrying.<\/span><\/p>\n

I would personally argue that while AI has hyperlinked us to information (and even here, we need to be very careful because of the numerous AI issues such as hallucination, incomplete or irrelevant information, etc), it has not hyperlinked us with each other. On the contrary, in many ways, I reckon it can easily make us less linked to each other. We read and hear about people using AI engines as their therapist (and it has now become a new market: Therapeak, TalkSpace,…), their friend or even their lover (remember the visionary movie \u201cHer\u201d?). The Russian series \u201cBetter Than Us\u201d and many <\/span>BlackMirror episodes<\/span><\/a> are really too close for comfort when displaying how intertwined AI has become with our environments and actually made us more isolated. According to a recent Pew research (2026), 10% of Americans use AI for emotional support.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Regardless of our opinions about it, AI is here to stay so we need to ensure that, just like with any other emerging technology, we use it as a tool to navigate our new modern complex environment, and that it remains only a part of it. Information ultimately comes from humans and any new tool, whatever it is, should enhance our human bonds and what we learn from each other.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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References\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Gottfried, J., Bishop, W., Anderson, M., Faverio, M., Park, E., & McClain, C. (2026, June 17). <\/span>Americans and AI 2026: Chatbots, smart devices and views on impact<\/span><\/i>. Pew Research Center.<\/span> https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2026\/06\/17\/americans-and-ai-2026-chatbots-smart-devices-and-views-on-impact\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Loertscher, D. (2008). Flip this library: School libraries need a revolution, not evolution. <\/span>School Library Journal (New York, N.Y.)<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>54<\/span><\/i>(11), 46.<\/span> https:\/\/link-gale-com.libaccess.sjlibrary.org\/apps\/doc\/A189870491\/AONE?u=csusj&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=c9cf8a02<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Thrill de Novo – Shorts. (2025, October 4). <\/span>Black Mirror: Can AI Bring Back Loved Ones?<\/span><\/i> [Video]. YouTube. <\/span>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/iUAML4ufD4E<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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