I'm pretty sure that everyone (and I mean everyone) would have taken a 'how to relationship' class if it existed and was actually worth a damn. As one or both of those criteria are never met, I'm thinking that this is simply something that you can't teach.
I think you can teach parts of it.
Now, I want to talk about May's recreational reading: It's interesting to see Jeph recall that May really doesn't want to be humanoid at all. She wants to be a fighter jet and she still keeps up with what I presume is a high-performance aviation lifestyle magazine. Obviously, AIs attempting to embezzle to get a fighter drone chassis is a significant problem, given the PSA on the back page: "Don't do crime to be a plane!" It's clearly a lesson that May had to learn the hard way!
The magazine being called "
Fighter Jet Monthly" says to me that its target audience is AIs who
are fighter jets.
What does an AI need with a magazine? I mean, can't AIs just slurp the stuff into their brains via the 'net?
It's like
Star Trek Voyager's "Doctor" operating one of the computer consoles and using PADDs. He
is the ship's computer, isn't he?
n.b.: Why would a magazine aimed at fighter jet AIs have that PSA on the back? Well, apparently, in the QCverse as in ours, magazine publishers know that for most special-interest magazines, their readership is largely about wish fulfillment.
(The leading general aviation magazine in the US,
Flying, has about ten times as many subscribers as there are private pilots in the US. Most readers of
Playboy are middle-aged and/or relentlessly single. The vast majority of readers of the likes of
Stereophile own equipment far cheaper than what that magazine commonly reviews. etc., etc. If you aim your magazine only at those who are already doing what your articles are about you severely limit your audience.)
Who'd like to see May become a 'plane, maybe something like a Quinjet from the MCU, and still try to keep up with her friends?
Maybe eventually, sure, why not?
If she had money she could probably have the experience temporarily. Just as there are "air combat joyride" companies today (see e.g.
Air Combat USA), I'd think the QCverse would have places that would let an AI temporarily "move into" a fighter jet - one without live ammunition, of course, and with strict override controls in place.