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Artificial Intimacy: Love, Grief, and AI Chatbots

Ideas from CBC Radio (Highlights) by CBC

Jul 27, 202600:54:08Society & Culture

Millions of people are using AI to “talk” to the dead. The phenomenon has left cyberpsychologist Elaine Kasket asking what happens when we rely on for-profit AI companies to help us manage something as deeply human as gr...

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Artificial Intimacy: Love, Grief, and AI Chatbots is an episode from Ideas from CBC Radio (Highlights) by CBC. Millions of people are using AI to “talk” to the dead. The phenomenon has left cyberpsychologist Elaine Kasket asking what happen...

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Published Jul 27, 2026, 00:54:08 long, audio available.