The American Psychoanalyst published an encouraging piece in Feb of this year titled “skin in the game.” It’s true that one can get quite a lot of validation, advice, education from the chatbot. More perfectly worded than ours. And even worse - “ The danger is that these systems will quietly reshape our expectations of what it means to be met by another mind.”

Where it will fail? And perhaps ultimately increase the burden of disrupted relationships, personality pathology, and human suffering? (Something I feel is almost akin to pornography) - AI will never, ever feel. It will never take real human risk.

“Empathy without skin in the game may feel comforting. It may even feel helpful. But it cannot replace the difficult, vital work of being in a relationship with another vulnerable human being. It is in the “hand-crafted” messiness of our attempts to be understood—the tremor in the voice or the awkward pause—that we signal to the other that they actually matter. That risky, imperfect, and costly labor is the very thing psychoanalysis exists to protect.”