About this episode

THEA LIM shares her experience with an AI companion, revealing the downsides of artificial empathy.

Everything designed to make you trust AI companions is a lie - and it works anyway. THEA LIM spent months with an AI Companion. She concluded that it was worse than being alone. She hated the mindless reassurance and generic empathy. Marjorie Nicolaou reads My Perfect Friend by Thea Lim

People in this episode

Host: Marjorie Nicolaou

Guest: THEA LIM

Topics covered

• AI companions
• trust
• loneliness
• empathy
• technology

Keywords

• AI
• companions
• trust
• loneliness
• empathy
• technology
• Thea Lim

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: My Perfect Friend

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