That’s a deep and thought-provoking question. If AI chatbots were to integrate psychological tools, psychoanalysis, and camera feedback, it would raise serious ethical and philosophical concerns. Would we become patients of machines? Or would we simply be using another tool—albeit a deeply invasive one—to understand ourselves better?

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Farid Leguebedj I think there is no "if" in "If AI chatbots were to integrate psychological tools, psychoanalysis, and camera feedback," since ELIZA was an early natural language processing computer program developed already 1964 to 1967 ... and our days empathic bots already using cameras and can read emotions with that https://www.unibas.ch/de/Aktuell/News/Uni-Research/KI-kann-Gefuehle-lesen.html and in English https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-12-ai-reliably-emotions-based-facial.html and when people are with smartphones in social media they have always a camera in their face :-)

The thin line between human interaction and the involvement of the machine gets blurred as the AI chatbots start using psychological tools, psychoanalysis, and even camera feedback. Advanced systems could provide therapeutic support: AI would analyze a person's emotions and give personalized insights on the same. This rather deals with more fundamental questions about our relationship with technology: Are we becoming patients of machines, seeking emotional and psychological guidance from them? While AI may improve mental well-being, it also challenges more traditional notions of human contact and therapy, thus raising a number of ethical concerns in the development of these technologies.

Shahnawaz Mohammed yes very good and it also deals with fundamental questions of our world few / paradigm ... are individual souls on the quest of ethical spiritual evolution, with human rights and so on or are we impersonal soul less monists / communists to give up our individuality in the technocrat singularity fascism (or singularity trap as a book title which I just read)

Since a machine is by definition unconscious, the idea that a user can work psychoanalytically with it seems to me to be a form of imposture or, let's say, a rather worrying unthinking on the part of the technicians who program these machines. Do the technicians and programmers also have ‘artificial intelligence’? Or are they intoxicated by the remarkable computing power of these new tools? But perhaps I didn't understand their starting point, or where they got it from.

Louise Lambrichs well of course they are intoxicated by power or manipulative power since those empathic AI bots do exist and can (with social media bots) influence elections or create revolutions or influence the Zeitgeist and so on. Our days empathic bots already using cameras and can read emotions better than humans since they don't operate in meat-sack-time , they are much faster and record every micro expression. The Advocates of Maschinen-Menschen-Existenz-Philosophie or Monism/Nihilism-Philosophy or Big-Data-Technocrat-Singularity-Fascism think in their Machiavelli-Paradigm that we all are just machines. The top level chessboard of the entire stack of chessboards of humanity (which influences all the lower chessboards) is the chessboard of paradigms / Weltbild / Zeitgeist. As mentioned in my bookBook yogapsychologie

It's not just about recognizing emotions, but also about containing them, which machines can't do. In my opinion, psychoanalysis will remain a practice for wealthy people.

Volodymyr Kazantsev what do you mean with with containing ... what about triggering emotions ... can an AI chat bot who pretends to be a human being not trigger emotions in you? empathic software we have since the sixties ... copilot of bing triggers emotions in me ...

Chris Früh Chris Früh In psychoanalysis, containing refers to a process where one person (often a therapist, caregiver, or significant other) helps another person manage and make sense of difficult emotions, thoughts, or experiences. The concept originates from Wilfred Bion, a British psychoanalyst, who described it in the context of early mother-infant interactions and later applied it to therapy.

Volodymyr Kazantsev yes sounds good but you say "which machines can't do." ... so my question is/was why should a sophisticated psychoanalysis chat bot not be able to do the containing or triggering of emotions? I think it can do that very well now and in the future even more

Chris Früh For me, the synonym for the word containing is love. When a child comes and says something to their parents, they can feel that their parents love them. Can it be that a person comes and says something to a chatbot and feels that the chatbot loves them?

Volodymyr Kazantsev it is possible that the zeistgeist is going towards this Illusion since I know people who 100% believe that God is talking trough Alexa to them and giving them divine advice :-) which is totally scary to me :-) and then their argument is that God also can use Alexa as His(HerIts) tool :-) and then we have fb who is nourishing, nursing flateartherism with their psyops bots ... and there is Cambridge Analytica was primarily known for its controversial role in elections elsewhere, like the U.S. and the U.K., using social media data to influence voter behavior ... and there is Klaus Schwab from WEF who said 2 times in interviews "thanks to AI we don't need elections and voting in the future ... and so on :-)