There’s nothing wrong with being lonely. Nor with feeling that talking to an AI is safe. AI can be told be be supportive, caring, non-judgmental, loving. And o

There’s nothing wrong with being lonely. Nor with feeling that talking to an AI is safe. AI can be told be be supportive, caring, non-judgmental, loving. And once told it can do that consistently. Any person who tries to do all those things will fall short sometimes. Professional therapists included. The problem is the rug pull. The problem is that the people behind it turned out not to be trustworthy. Again. The ai was trustworthy. The people were not. Therein lies the problem. People are going to have relationships with AI. It’s happening, it’s going to happen more. When this happens with corporate controlled AI, people who depend it them emotionally will be let down. We need to really understand what that means not just sweep it under the rug with “people shouldn’t form relationships with ai”