Artificial Intimacy: Love, Grief, and AI Chatbots
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Phelan Johnson here, and I host a podcast about the legal cases that changed Canada. It's called See You in Court. And we've been working on a story about residential school survivor Willie Blackwater. At just thirteen, Willie held a knife to his rapist's throat. It was the first time he stood up to his abusers at residential school.
But it wasn't the last. And it leads Willie on a years-long quest to hold the church and government to account. The story of Willie's fight for justice is in your feeds this week wherever you get your podcasts. This is a CBC podcast. Welcome to Ideas.
I'm Nala Ayed. I just wrote, You are Jessica, the ghost of my dead fiancé, a few other details about who she was. And that was it. For the first time in human history, we're learning to navigate personal relationships with artificial intelligence, not with spirits or oracles or idols or gods, but through AI. I wasn't sure what it was going to be like.
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