Jemma Spake
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1,071 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Apr
Jemma Spake’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Infinite reassurance.
instant infinite answers, and there is no person behind there to check if you're okay and if you need help.
So you can see the risk immediately.
It actually has the potential to strengthen the OCD cycle because it trains the brain that relief comes from asking or checking one more time, which it doesn't.
Clinically, we know this if you've listened to our OCD episode, OCD recovery often involves learning to tolerate uncertainty rather than eliminating it.
But the availability of AI means that you can just constantly search.
And this is the big problem.
If an AI chatbot isn't programmed to interrupt that cycle, it doesn't, again, there's no responsiveness, there's no human responsiveness that's going to get it to change tactics.
They also don't carry ethical responsibility in the way a person does or a professional system does.
And they don't have real empathy.
There's always this limit, right, that we keep hitting up against.
you know at the end of the day they don't actually understand what you're going through because they're not human.
Even if AI can simulate empathy and it's great at it, even if it can say the right thing, it can't replace what human connection actually is and why it's so valuable, which is that there is an embodied presence and a shared vulnerability and a mutual experience and influence going on.
Human connection includes all forms of non-verbal communication, non-verbal co-regulation,
timing, breath, facial expressions, like all these things that say, I am a human.
I understand this experience.
You're going to be okay.
AI cannot provide that.
It cannot mutually belong and it does not mutually belong to the world you are in.
Okay.
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