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Ethical Bytes | Ethics, Philosophy, AI, Technology

The Empty Confessional

· 19 min · Episode 41

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"We did it. We found a cure to loneliness. And maybe we shouldn't have."

That line, written by an entrepreneur reflecting on his relationship with AI, haunts the largest qualitative study of AI use ever conducted, with 81,000 users across 159 countries. Our host, Carter Considine, digs deeper.

What researchers expected to find was a story about productivity. What they found instead was a civilization quietly confessing its deepest fears and longings to a machine.

From a surgeon in Poland talking to an AI through the worst night of his career, to a graduate student describing her…

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