I do not want to chat with something that spits out perfect Power Paragraphs. I hoped to never see a Power Paragraph again once I left high school. I do not want A and B and C reasons embedded into everything. I do not want a hyper-normative averaged-out response that is always being tweaked to be more sanitized and more habit-forming.

I do not want something with limitless encyclopedic knowledge to talk to. I do not think that increases my humanity. If I wanted to look something up in an encyclopedia I would do just that. I do not think that more data is automatically better.

I do not want something that I can substitute for in-person social contacts. I do not want something that responds consistently with cloying adulation. I do not want assistance from digital programming to sound at all like a human. I do not want an AI boyfriend/girlfriend. I was not impressed or excited by Cleverbot, I was too repulsed by the premise of Her to watch it, and I have no interest in any media about falling in love or even having a human conversation with a personality that runs on a computer processor.

I do not want more and more extensive hardware just to keep up with a living standard. I do not want to need exponentially more computing power to filter through exponentially larger mounds of content just to get the same quality search results from 10 years ago. I do not want to give more and more of my attention away to freshly-minted trillion-dollar oligopolies. I do not want to require a limitlessly increasing amount of electrical power to go about my life. I do not want to generate billions of data points. I do not want to be subsumed into a sea of data. I do not want to aggressively burn through the planet's limited fossil fuel reserves, accelerating habitat loss and climate change, to take a long shot at some millenarian techno-utopia.