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Rethinking empathy in the age of AI

2026-01-16

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<p>People increasingly turn to artificial intelligence (AI) for empathic support, often reporting feelings of being cared for and supported. Longstanding models of empathy, however, center the empathizer’s embodied emotional experience, which AI fundamentally lacks. This tension between human experience and traditional researcher-imposed empathy definitions raises important scientific questions as to what it truly...

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Literature Corpus work: f868c92d-64a2-572c-a07f-0812210b9a09
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/yj5n3_v1

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