AI as Therapist? Intimacy Without Understanding
- Date & time
- Speaker
- Professor Matt JonesIT Livery Company Professor of Information Technology, Swansea University
- Location
- Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn
- Organisation
- Gresham College
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About this talk
AI systems are increasingly positioned as supports for anxiety, loneliness, and distress. This lecture examines large language models trained to simulate therapeutic dialogue alongside biofeedback systems that modulate physiological states. We distinguish responsiveness from empathy, asking where AI may scaffold reflection and where automated comfort subtly displaces responsibility.
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