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Meta’s Alexandr Wang says one session with an AI agent felt like 3 years of therapy. “It had, you know, access to my email and access to a bunch of my photos... I was very vulnerable through that process.” soon we'll all have our own "Superintelligent Therapists" and i can't stop thinking about the implications. think about how therapy works right now. you see someone for an hour a week, and everything they know about you comes from what you decide to tell them. so they only ever get the version of your life you remember (+ are willing to say out loud) now imagine an agent where: it has read every email and text you’ve sent. it has gone through your entire camera roll. it remembers every chat you’ve ever had with it. it would see all the deeper patterns you never even think to bring up like who you stopped replying to, what you keep putting off, who’s in your photos during the years you looked happiest, etc this thing would literally know you better than you know yourself it could psychoanalyze you at a level no therapist could ever reach (at least on the information side. i still think a good therapist does something beyond words, more on an "energetic" level) but what does it actually mean when there’s a superintelligence that knows you better than anyone else does? even Elon is worried about this one: “So many people are going to get one-shotted by super persuasive super intelligences and I might be one of them” anything that knows you better than you know yourself also knows exactly what to say to change your mind I'm cautiously optimistic it could be very helpful for self-reflection / behavior change, but there are massive downsides if stuff goes wrong. regardless it's inevitable, so we're all about to find out