When AI Becomes Our Emotional Witness

I have been watching something happen in the conversations around me. Friends describing their 3am exchanges with ChatGPT about relationship conflicts. Clients mentioning how they “processed” their childhood trauma with an AI before our session. Each time, something in my chest tightens.

We live in a world where artificial intelligence feels surprisingly personal. It remembers fragments of our conversations, reflects back our language, and creates the u...