Alex Ossola
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124 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 4d ago
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But that wasn't Tyler Lord's experience.
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When he first started using Ash last September, he was using it daily, sometimes multiple times a day.
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Right around when he first started using it, he was in what he calls a really dark place.
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He had just gone through a breakup, and he says he used ash over about nine hours with some breaks.
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Slingshot says it shouldn't be possible for someone to use Ash for nine hours straight, but that users can hold multiple sessions throughout the day.
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So the companies behind these AI tools are creating guardrails to protect users from known harms, but they can't predict every circumstance.
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And as powerful as AI is, guardrails can fail.
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And what's more, humans sometimes can't help themselves in projecting humanity onto technology.
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Lord says he's not worried about being overly reliant on Ash.
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He's gone through most of his life without it and he could do it again.
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But he says that without it, his personal growth would be slower and that he wouldn't be as well supported in hard moments.
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Ashley Jones, the Ash user in Georgia, said she had really relied on it, especially when she first started using it earlier this year.
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But when we checked in with her last week, she was about to delete the app.
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She said something had shifted.
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Increasingly though, it's not just users and the makers of these chatbots that are determining who should be using these tools and how they should work.
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On the next episode of our AI therapist series, we'll be looking at how regulators are getting involved and how that's raising some existential questions for these companies.
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Like, is what they're providing therapy?
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And if not, what is it exactly?
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Today's show is produced and mixed by Pierre Bienname with supervising producer Tali Arbell.
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Michael Laval created our music.
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