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Are you using AI to strengthen your relationships—or skip the work they require?

Take the 2-minute Human Connection Check and see whether your AI habits are helping you become more curious, courageous, self-aware, and connected—or quietly doing those things for you.

12 questions. About 2 minutes. No right answers. Just an honest look at how AI is showing up in your relationships.

Better words aren't always better relationships.

AI can give you polished words. It can interpret somebody's text. Write an apology. Help you respond to conflict. Tell you why someone might be acting a certain way. Make you sound calm, empathetic, thoughtful, and emotionally intelligent.

But relationships aren't built by polished words. They're built by what happens behind them: curiosity, attention, courage, ownership, empathy. Actually talking to another person.

Relational Slop

Communication that sounds thoughtful, caring, empathetic, or emotionally intelligent—but has less and less actual human attention behind it.

You can send an incredible apology without actually owning anything. You can understand someone's "personality" without asking them a single question. You can write the perfect difficult message instead of having the difficult conversation. You can get validation for your side without becoming curious about theirs.

AI can help us think better. The opportunity is to use it in ways that make us more capable of connecting with people—not less dependent on doing the human work relationships require.

Use AI to help you think, prepare, question, and reflect. Then go be human.

The Human Connection Check is a directional self-assessment designed to encourage reflection about how AI is being used in human relationships. It is not a clinical, psychological, therapeutic, or psychometric assessment.

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