AI Can Be Your Therapist, But Never Your Partner

About this episode

The episode explores how people are negotiating AI's role in their lives with insights from Gillian Katz of Hannah Grey.

People will let AI be their therapist but not their partner, their assistant but not their manager. Gillian Katz of Hannah Grey VC joins Phillip and Brian to unpack the firm's newest Cultural Vibrations journal and the qualitative study behind it: a read on how people are actually negotiating AI's role in their lives, domain by domain, role by role; from anthropology to sommelier frameworks to Goodhart's Law.

People in this episode

Hosts: Phillip Jackson, Brian Lange

Guest: Gillian Katz

Topics covered

• AI
• therapy
• Cultural Vibrations
• qualitative study
• human-AI interaction
• anthropology
• Goodhart's Law

Keywords

• AI therapist
• Cultural Vibrations
• qualitative study
• human-AI roles
• Goodhart's Law
• anthropology
• sommelier frameworks

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Organizations: Hannah Grey

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