I am walking between carriages in search of a cup of tea on a train travelling over 100 miles an hour from Liverpool to London when I see half the people in my carriage in deep conversations with a machine: ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini to name a few.(我正走在一列从利物浦开往伦敦、时速超过100英里的火车车厢之间，想找杯茶喝，这时我看到车厢里一半的人都在与机器深入交谈：ChatGPT、Claude和Gemini等等。) I am meant to be on sabbatical(学术休假), the rare stretch of academic life reserved(保留的) for slow thinking. Around me, almost nobody is thinking slowly.
我正走在一列从利物浦开往伦敦、时速超过100英里的火车车厢之间，想找杯茶喝，这时我看到车厢里一半的人都在与机器深入交谈：ChatGPT、Claude和Gemini等等。我本应在休学术假，这是学术生涯中难得的、专为慢思考保留的时光。但在我周围，几乎没人在慢慢思考。
This is not limited to a train carriage. Half of the adults surveyed in one US study reported using an AI chatbot, one example of how fast people are entering a relationship with their AI tools, which now receive more of our questions, problems and drafts than our friends and colleagues do.(美国一项研究中，半数受访成年人表示使用过AI聊天机器人，这只是一个例子，说明人们正以多快的速度与AI工具建立关系——如今，这些工具收到的我们的问题、难题和草稿，比朋友和同事收到的还多。)
这并不局限于火车车厢。美国一项研究中，半数受访成年人表示使用过AI聊天机器人，这只是一个例子，说明人们正以多快的速度与AI工具建立关系——如今，这些工具收到的我们的问题、难题和草稿，比朋友和同事收到的还多。
I am one of them; I research advanced technologies for a living(以……为生). I sceptically(怀疑地) entered this relationship to satisfy my curiosity, and my very first request of ChatGPT was to proofread(校对) an email. The second was to plan a four-day holiday, and the third was to compare home loans. I sent that AI-proofread email, took that short holiday, and refinanced(重新贷款) our mortgage with a better rate – all based on its advice. The relationship started growing and I started giving it more complicated tasks: summarise an article, collate(整理) recent findings on a specific topic and redesign my kitchen. What would have taken hours took only minutes.(原本需要数小时的事，几分钟就完成了。) I trusted nothing and checked every line, as trust in any relationship accrues(累积) exchange by exchange. I did not like the kitchen design it produced.
我就是其中之一；我以研究先进技术为生。我带着怀疑进入这段关系，以满足好奇心，我对ChatGPT的第一个请求是校对一封邮件。第二个是规划一个四天的假期，第三个是比较住房贷款。我发出了那封AI校对过的邮件，度过了那个短假，并以更低的利率重新贷款——全都基于它的建议。这段关系开始发展，我开始给它更复杂的任务：总结一篇文章、整理某个特定主题的最新发现、重新设计我的厨房。原本需要数小时的事，几分钟就完成了。我不信任任何东西，逐行检查，因为任何关系中的信任都是一次次交换累积起来的。我不喜欢它设计的厨房。