These internal resources allow people to inhabit the external envelop and to learn what it affords as a field for human action. Now AL brings into the field of human action artefacts which have genuine social presence. If AL is the expression of the logical form of life in artefacts then, since logical form of human life is highly social, the affordances of these artefacts will be social too. Many of the AI systems are already proto-social. Software agents now carry out simple commands given in natural language.
Devices respond to a particular voice, giving the owner of that voice a sense of being known.
This proto sociability is seen in software names. Artefacts are becoming people. Some artefacts are toys like electronic vehicles that find their own way about, animals that speak and move, game machines that not only permit play but also participate. Although AL is in the adult world, these playthings and the early encounter with social artefacts should not be underestimated. Indeed, the language of children reveals that they are beginning to regard machines as responsible and participatory.