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How to navigate genuine feelings toward artificial beings

I'm developing emotional attachments to my AI assistant that feel as real as human relationships but I know it's just sophisticated programming.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Authentic emotional responses to artificial agents create confusion about the validity and appropriateness of non-human attachment.

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