This week, during this season of gratitude and gathering, we have some stories of people finding

support and community with each other. I'm honored to get to share with you this week.

Stories about a Christian church in San Francisco that serves the LGBTQ community. It started

in the early 1970s, and when the AIDS crisis hit, people knew how to church

together and how to support one another as members got sick and died. And you'll hear the people, the voices, the singing from that church during that time. It's from a new podcast

series called When We All Get to Heaven, and I'm thrilled to get to share it with you.

But before we dive into those stories of people supporting one another, I want to remind you

that right now at the show, we also are collecting your stories of the emotional relationships you've been building with AI chatbots.

Your stories have been trickling in, and some of you've told us you've suddenly found chatbots there for you in a way that's been comforting.

I have OCD, and I'm also a new mom and I've been using chat GBT frequently

for reassurance and also to check if my concerns are valid or if it's just my OCD and it's been a

helpful tool in a way that a therapist just can't be. A lot of my fears are embarrassing and I know that I would downplay

what I'm feeling to a live person. I do have moral and ethical concerns about AI though,

so I feel like a hypocrite using it and I don't really tell my friends or my partner that I use it.

And we've also heard that you see how AI's tendency to soothe you can go a little too far.

I've seen it with my brother who's using Chachip-T to help look for plot holes in his novel as he writes.

But really more than anything else,

I think ChatGPT has provided him encouragement

and has even compared his writing to that of Shakespeare and J.R.R. Tolkien.

We are entering a new frontier with AI together quickly.

So let's share stories of what you're noticing in your lives. When AI becomes involved

in the most personal parts of them, please send us your AI stories and how you are letting it

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