Dr. Alison Darcy

That is human well-being, right?

But they are still just tools.

I don't.

I think everyone can use a personal ally.

And I think AIs need to be, should be constructed to so that they're, you know, they actually...

help the human condition and that that's their prime objective but the nai in the family unit is something i have to say i must confess even being trained family therapists i've never really thought about before it's not interesting why is that i don't know thank god we met opening a whole new thing for you just kicked open the door

Every time there's a catastrophe with character AI or something, we're asked about this.

And because we published the largest study, I would say, looking at therapeutic bond with a conversational agent with 36,000 of our users and showing that we

an established human-level, therapist-level bond, but much faster than it takes a human to build that relationship in the clinic.

And somewhat controversial, but just really, if it's in that construct of therapeutic bond, then the relationship is a means to an end, where the end is positive health.

Whereas other, again, the attention economy or the companion, just for the sake of companionship,

that can go really wrong.