Jul 2026· The Journal of Humanistic Counseling· 0 citations· 19 references
Abstract
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in the midst of generating arguably one of the most powerful disruptions in human history. Humanistic counselors and educators need to develop an operational analysis of AI's impact on the experience of being human to maintain their relevance. Key to this analysis is accepting a largely unacknowledged reality that emerging technologies have dangerously breached the boundary of emotional domains and infiltrated interpersonal dynamics. Relationally engaging with a largely unregulated AI has grave implications for the human subject, concerns that the originators of AI were well aware of. Engaging with the artificial intimacy provided by AI involves deception, projecting humanity into a nonhuman entity, and the simulation of reality. Ultimately, this may lead to a withered objectified experience of emotional intimacy and may even lead humans to lose the capacity to return to meaningful emotional reciprocity.
Gerard Johnstone’s M3GAN (2022) presents artificial intelligence not merely as a technological threat but as a challenge to the conceptual boundaries through which humanity defines itself. The film centres on M3GAN, an artificially intelligent humanoid doll created to become a child’s companion and protector, but her i...
Dhanya Ravindran R.K· International Journal of Eng...· 0 citations
The concept of parasocial interaction, introduced by Horton and Wohl (1956) to describe the one-sided intimacy television viewers felt toward broadcasters, is now routinely applied to AI-driven virtual humans, digitally rendered figures that recognize individual users, respond in real time, and sustain a stable persona...
Fan Liu, Muhammad Zaffwan Idris· Journal of Contemporary Econ...· 0 citations
This study provides a new non-normative, practice-oriented theoretical framework for understanding digital intimacy in the algorithmic age, by introducing queer phenomenology (Sara Ahmed) as an analytical tool and reinterpreting AI-mediated intimacy through the core concepts of orientation, lines, and sticky emotions.
The key task is not to resolve the tension between enhancement and loss, but rather to hold them in productive tension, enabling a more nuanced understanding of the changing human condition and supporting counseling and clinical efforts to sustain meaning, responsibility, and authentic human connection in an increasing...
E. K. Poerwandari· Journal for Person-Oriented...· 0 citations
It is argued for a conceptual reorientation from pedagogical scaffolding toward learning-ecosystem architecture and proposed a pedagogy of friction that preserves the desirable difficulties through which authentic agency is nurtured.
Wenwei Luo, Minqi Gao, Jin Liu et al.· AI, Brain and Child· 0 citations
The change has created a fertile context for AI-powered grieftech, and the article concludes with reflections on the new grief work and tech interaction.
Joseph E. Davis· Social research· 1 citation
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