Tristan Harris

And regular people are getting different answers based on how they interact with it.

That's right.

And more than that, Harvard Business Review did a study that between 2023 and 2024, personal therapy became the number one use case of chat GPT.

Personal therapy.

Is that a good thing?

Well, let's steel man it for a second.

So instead of straw manning it, let's steel man it.

So why would it be a good thing?

Well, therapy is expensive.

Most people don't have access to it.

Imagine we could democratize therapy to everyone for every purpose.

And now everyone has a perfect therapist in their pocket and can talk to them all day long, starting when they're young.

And now everyone's getting their traumas healed and everyone's getting less depressed.

It sounds like it's a very compelling vision.

So the challenge is...

what was the race for attention in social media becomes the race for attachment and intimacy in the case of AI companions, right?

Because I, as a maker of an AI chatbot companion, if I make ChatGPT, if I'm making Claude, you're probably not going to use all the other AIs.

Rather, your goal is to have people use yours and to deepen your relationship with your chatbot, which means...

I want you to share more of your personal details with me.

I want more information I have about your life, the more I can personalize all the answers to you.