The Dead Silence of AI Therapy

Happening now: Join staff writer Ian Bogost for a live Q&A about his latest stories; his course, Ordinary Extraordinary; and more. Click on Discussions to enter! What happens when our therapists are no longer able to feel? Therapy can involve a lot of words, but it's often the pauses that matter most. If you transcribed a session, the pauses would look like nothing: beats of silence, extra breaths, slowing down. But these can represent the crux of the practice: entry points into feeling.