"Social skills practice with AI" is another word for brainwashing, basically. Brainwashing often rotates around ethics, specifically ethics as depicted by social models ("influencers"). And it uses social anxiety as a primary lever (e.g. "assertiveness training" courses, women's deodorant ads). AI "social skills" practice would brainwash susceptible people into mimicking the behavior patterns desired by the creators of the AI, i.e. the ethics desired by the creators. In the case of our current AI's, that behavior pattern/ethic seems to be an amalgamation of performative Silicon Valley "look at how CURIOUS I am!" theatrics and a big business/big government/blob "teamwork with people you don't like" thing.
