Los Angeles - The most common use of generative AI is for therapy and companionship. It’s a brave new world, indeed, and Aldous Huxley is now rolling in his grave. I should not have been surprised to learn at a recent conference, therefore, that a survey of students at a major, prestigious university found that one quarter of those receiving counseling were doing so with non-human therapists. When asked why, a majority of those opting for non-human (AI) therapists said they did so because they did not want to be judged by other humans. Oh boy; we’re in real trouble. I’m about to add to my reading list Sherry Turkle’s new book “Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines.” Yes, Artificial Intimacy is a new form of AI. I followed MIT Professor Turkle’s work in the 1980s and ‘90s with books such as “The Second Self” (1984) and “Life on the Screen” (1995), presaging much of what was (and is) to come in the tenuous, even dangerous relationship between humans and t...
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