A young man instructs the chatbot to approve each of his own ideas. I propose to recognize that the agreement produced also depends on the request.

In the example, the system becomes unhelpful for discovering errors. A learning-oriented conversation should allow for objections, uncertainty, and independent control.

It is not necessary to accept every automatic criticism, but neither to build an interlocutor who cannot disagree. Autonomy grows when reasons can be discussed, although this makes the process less comfortable.

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