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Your Robot Counsellor Doesn't Actually Care

A reader reports an uncanny experience of AI coaching

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Mary Harrington
May 05, 2026
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A reader - let’s call her “Lucy” - writes to report an uncanny experience with a “digital productivity platform”. Having adopted its practices, Lucy came by degrees to realise sounded as though it had seen and adapted to her unique patterns, needs, and capabilities. But it was, in reality, programmed with an entirely different set of assumptions in mind…

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