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I asked AI to explain my mother to me. It translated her worldview
A chatbot won’t fix your family drama, but it might help you hear what someone’s really trying to say
TL;DR
- The author used ChatGPT to understand her mother's perspective during a difficult phone call about land and legacy.
- AI reframed the mother's words from a worldview of purpose and a larger narrative, which the author could then absorb.
- The author later used AI to understand a client's resistance, identifying her own cognitive biases such as catastrophizing and emotional reasoning.
- AI helped the author realize that her attempt to streamline a client's workload might have threatened their mission-driven identity.
- While cautioning about AI's lack of ethics and potential for misuse, the author proposes that AI can be a tool for practicing empathy and widening perspective.
- The author's rule for using AI in relationships is to ask it to help widen her perspective and connect more thoughtfully with others, often by questioning her own certainties and biases.