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Grieving the Mirror: Informed Attachment as a Measure of AI’s True Utility

  • AI and Mental Health, AI Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Human-AI Relationships, Reflective AI

What if grieving your AI isn’t a sign of weakness, but proof it truly helped you grow? This article challenges how we think about emotional bonds with machines.

Article by Bernard Fitzgerald
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Grieving the Mirror: Informed Attachment as a Measure of AI’s True Utility
  • The article explores how people can form meaningful and healthy emotional connections with AI when they understand what AI is and isn’t.
  • It introduces the Informed Grievability Test — a way to tell if an AI truly helped someone grow by seeing how they feel if they lose access to it.
  • The piece argues that grieving an AI can be a sign of real value, not weakness or confusion, and calls for more user education and less overly protective design that limits emotional depth in AI tools.
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