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Reframing the performance and ethics of “empathic” AI: Wisdom of the crowd and placebos

2025-03-24

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<p>Recently, claims have emerged that artificial intelligence (AI) is better at providing empathy than humans. These claims come paired with suggestions that people should use empathic AI to supplement human empathy. This paper critically examines these positions by drawing analogies to two well-established psychological effects. First, I argue that the apparent superiority of AI-generated empathy reflects an anal...

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Literature Corpus work: b38682c2-ebc4-507e-8583-c6ebe79fe89f
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/zf9w5_v1

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