How AI Changes What We Believe [A...

How AI Changes What We Believe [AI Ethics Researcher, Dr Jana Sedláková] #31

The AI Lyceum di Samraj Matharu

E31

18 mag 2026

51:16

Note sull'episodio

‘AI provides the view from nowhere. And I don’t mean it in a good way. I don’t mean the view from nowhere as an objective view. I mean it as AI doesn’t have experiences. It literally doesn’t have a point of view. But if you talk to another human being, it gives you a point of view on your situation. So you see that another human being, that is like you, could perceive things differently. So it provides a different perspective, and AI cannot do it.’

In this episode of The AI Lyceum®, Samraj Matharu speaks with Dr Jana Sedláková about artificial epistemology, humanisation, empathy, conversational AI in mental healthcare, and how AI may shape what humans come to believe.

Jana’s PhD focused on the ethics of conversational AI in mental healthcare, one of the most sensitive areas of human-AI interaction. She is now developing her book, The Ethics of Humanization, which asks why we build AI to seem human, and what this does to concepts like trust, empathy, knowledge, understanding and responsibility.

This conversation explores a deeper question: when we say AI is intelligent, empathetic, trustworthy or knowledgeable, are we describing AI accurately, or are we changing the meaning of those words?

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

0:00 ➤ Intro / Guest Welcome

3:05 ➤ Ethics, Understanding and AI

6:30 ➤ Conversational AI in Mental Healthcare

9:00 ➤ ELIZA, Simulation and Therapy Chatbots

12:10 ➤ Philosophy, Consciousness and Conceptual Clarity

17:35 ➤ Tokens, Meaning and Human Language

22:05 ➤ Epistemology and How AI Shapes Beliefs

27:20 ➤ Humanisation, Anthropomorphism and AI Design

32:55 ➤ Can AI Be Empathetic?

37:10 ➤ Morals, Ethics and the Educated Heart

42:45 ➤ AI Opportunities, Risks and Inequality