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AI Should Develop Human Empathy, Not Replace It

2025-12-12

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<p>Empathizing with another is perhaps the most human emotion of all and a long shot from the cold calculations of vectorized tokens that drive the inner workings of contemporary LLMs. This paper looks beyond the questions of what to make of AI-generated “empathy” and instead asks whether AI can be used to develop our capacities for genuine human empathy. Empathy is not a static trait, instead capable of growth an...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/y3qzu_v4

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