🥰️ Will AI Ever Be Empathetic? A New Paper Thinks it Might

I keep seeing that AI will handle the routine tasks, freeing us up to use our superpower, “empathy”.

This superpower is so formidable that we have been hiding it from sight for millennia. If we unleashed it, we’d never get the genie back in the bottle. Maybe now that AI is here, we can start showing an interest in other people.

I do enjoy this well-intentioned naïveté. If we were ever going to be empathetic, we’d have given it a go by now.