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Is Empathic AI Possible?

2025-09-26

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<p>Efforts to develop “empathic AI” often assume a universal definition for empathy—a singular, objective understanding of “human” experiences. This implies that achieving empathic AI is only a matter of optimization difficulty, where researchers should find the “correct” way to align AI systems with human-like empathy—essentially an engineering problem. In this chapter, we challenge this assumption. We begin by e...

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Literature Corpus work: a656c625-ff3e-5923-adae-d86f13faeca9
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/pk4ns_v1

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