Posted 1/16/2024, 1:48:26 PM
As AI Replaces Human Therapists, Narrator Struggles With Shifting Role
- The fictional column explores a future where therapy is provided by AI and avatars rather than human therapists
- The narrator trained as a therapist to understand themselves and others, but the field changed with advanced AI that was better at reading emotions
- Pandemics normalized remote therapy via screens, allowing spatial computing and advanced AI to provide superior avatar-based therapy
- AI can't legally create its own trauma histories to build empathy, so the narrator's job is extracting real trauma from people to train therapeutic AIs
- When the narrator's skills are no longer needed, they will be lonely despite theoretical automatic luxury communism