AI Chat Bots Shouldn’t Be Your Therapist or Friend... Yet

As we immerse ourselves in the digital world, artificial intelligence comes forward to offer companionship and even psychological therapy.

Humans tend to make associations with anything as if it were another person. It is in our nature and it is why we experience emotional reactions to fictional characters in films, even when we know that the events depicted are not real. We are complex.

Artificial intelligence does not reciprocate the love we are capable of giving, we need to be loved for what we are, as well as for what we are not. The inability of AI to truly understand human emotions can lead to seriously dangerous consequences; recently, sadly, a series of chats between a human and a chatbot culminated in the former committing suicide.