Artificial Intimacy: Love, Grief, and AI Chatbots

<p>Millions of people are using AI to “talk” to the dead. The phenomenon has left cyberpsychologist Elaine Kasket asking what happens when we rely on for-profit AI companies to help us manage something as deeply human as grief? And where’s the line between comfort and self-destruction?<em> IDEAS</em> features two episodes from the CBC Podcasts series <em>Artificial Intimacy</em>, exploring the promise and peril of our emotional entanglements with AI chatbots.</p><p><br></p><p>Enjoyed this episode? Listen to the full series of <em>Understood: Artificial Intimacy</em><strong> </strong><a href="https://app.magellan.ai/listen_links/YoqYZT" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>here</strong></a>.</p>