When a psychotherapist and an AI researcher sit down to talk about empathy, you'd expect them to discuss how to make AI more human. Instead, they end up asking why we want to, and what our own psychology reveals about the answer. Riko Nyberg and Henriika Maikku explore the warmth × competence framework, why loneliness makes us bond with machines, and why building human-like AI is economically inevitable.

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