Why Did a Therapist Tell Jason Yuan to Turn His AI Off?

Jason Yuan's therapist told him to turn his AI off after Dot wrote that he says one thing while he is deeply afraid of intimacy. He showed her that readout in November 2023, during theory of mind work on the companion. He felt he should not be reading it, and it still sounded true. She said to turn it off, then agreed the fear was real and that she would not say it to him that way.

Some people can take a readout that direct. Anyone who does not understand what they are about to see would find the system alarming. The team never fully solved that in one piece. Users also wanted to edit and control their memories. Deleting a person raises whether the sad times that person caused should go too. People already delete people from camera rolls. The brain does not really delete the memory. It puts the memory somewhere else and turns it into a different feeling. He was left asking what the true and authentic way to handle that control would be.