Connect me to a human

This is Robin speaking – the real, live, non-AI Robin Prag.
It’s Saturday morning 27 April 2024, in Perth, Western Australia, and I’m doing some revisions to my website.
I nearly cried a couple of hours ago as I lost an hour’s worth of work – changes and updates on my website – due to a computer glitch that has never happened before, and is totally unrelated to anything that I have or haven’t done.
Aaaaaaargh!!!
I search for help; I wade through and push aside multiple cobwebs of “internet fluff” preventing me from finding what I actually need to resolve this issue.
Eventually I find a “happiness engineer” to help resolve the problem for me.
It’s a long time since I’ve contacted a “happiness engineer” – in the past, when they got back to my email query, they were mostly super helpful, so I eagerly look forward to his (the name is male) help.
He gives me loads of useful information, but something in his response doesn’t ring true to what I had written. I reply and tell him that no, the issue is not resolved, but there’s no response.
Then I scroll down and wade through the morass of information he’s given me, and I’m about to reply again when right at the bottom together with a heart-warming, wonderfully politically correct, personal encouragement of me in my life, together with supporting emojis, I see the following concluding words:

Remember, if you need to talk to a human, just type ‘connect me to a human’.

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The future is NOW.
And it’s only getting worse.
Could it be that the global epidemic of depression, anxiety and multiple major mental health issues (gotta love the alliteration) is in some vague, roundabout way related to the fact that we are so DISCONNECTED FROM OTHER HUMANS???
They’ll never prove it – try and make that evidence-based!
I’m very grateful to and appreciative of AI for all it can do for us.
And some fantastic pieces of AI generated art I’ve recently seen.
I love the humour it has provided me for this post.
But I worry for the future generations as we become more and more disconnected from our fellow human beings; as we live in, get our information from, and base our Life Decisions on algorithms and ARTIFICIAL Intelligence (which, in truth, is artificial MIMICRY).
And what about the day, when our request to ‘connect me to a human’ can no longer be granted?
I’ve had a great life, and here’s hoping I won’t be around to witness that.