AI & EMOTIONAL WELLBEING BEYOND CHATBOTS

1. When AI Becomes an Emotional Companion Today´s topics of discussion: ✅Why people are increasingly turning to AI for emotional conversations, advice, comfort and companionship. ✅Can AI truly understand emotions, or does it only simulate empathy? ✅The difference between emotional support from AI and genuine human connection. 2. AI & Human Connection: Bringing Us Closer or Further Apart? What you can cover: ✅ Whether AI can help people communicate their feelings and strengthen relationships. ✅ The possibility of becoming more comfortable talking to machines than to people. ✅ How we can use AI to enhance human connection without replacing it. 3. The Emotional Risks: Dependency, Privacy & Manipulation What you can cover: ✅ The risks of emotional dependency and over-reliance on AI for personal decisions. ✅ What happens to our most intimate emotional data when we share it with technology? ✅ How AI could influence, persuade or manipulate us when it understands our emotional vulnerabilities. 4. Designing AI With Emotional Wisdom What you can cover: ✅ What boundaries should AI have when interacting with people emotionally? ✅ When should AI support us and when should it encourage us to seek human connection or professional help? ✅ How can we build AI that is human-centred, ethical and emotionally responsible? 5. The Future of Emotional Intelligence: Can AI Teach Us to Understand Ourselves Better? What you can cover: ✅ Can AI help us recognise patterns in our emotions, behaviour and communication that we may not notice ourselves? ✅ Could AI become a tool for developing self-awareness, emotional intelligence and resilience? ✅ How do we ensure that as AI becomes better at understanding humans, humans become better at understanding themselves and each other?