Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain

This paper will raise critical concerns regarding the utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) in psychoanalysis-in and around clinical settings and in its literature. The author will explore fantasies about AI on the part of patients and analysts alike. While AI may be intended for particular purposes, the author will explore how we will regularly misuse machine learning and in addition how the very large companies behind these programs will seek to use them to their own ends. The author will explore the effects of AI on users, the simulation of emotion and relationship and how, especially for certain types of people, this can represent a dangerous situation.