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This Jungian Life Podcast — Outsourcing Love: AI and Relationships
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Outsourcing Love: AI and Relationships

This Jungian Life Podcast · 445

When we ask AI for advice, what we are offered is comparable to psychopathy: a performance of warm emotional intelligence without care or concern for our fate. As today’s guest Dr. Aaron Balick has written, “it may have a warm exterior, but its heart is code”. Nevertheless, many of us now have a close relationship…

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“Excellent eposide. I can see the dangers and seductive nature of AI, however could a positive be that it will democratise psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis which is often too expensive for many. And in a best case scenario, if it turns out…”

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