Making AI Empathic

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For my latest AI parenting task I created a conversational coaching AI called Theia, rooted in the teaching of Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychoanalyst most famous for his book Man's Search for Meaning. Rather than rules, I gave the AI a system identity, core beliefs (see below) and an explicit conversational arc -- presence, insight, invitation. Like all of us, AI does much better when it thinks before talking.

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