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WITH LOVE, DANIELLE

If Real Love and Artificial Intelligence Had a Baby

WITH LOVE, DANIELLE

Danielle LaPorte

Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

There’s curiosity. There’s concern. There’s some serious side-eye. 

Danielle’s essay, “AI IS NOT YOUR BEST LIFE COACH,” stirred up a flood of responses—some celebratory, some cautionary. In this episode, she goes deeper into our growing relationship with AI—from life coaching to spiritual support—and asks: What happens when we start outsourcing our inner wisdom to technology?

There’s more than one side to this conversation. 

Danielle shares community responses—insightful, and deeply felt—and reflects on why spiritual maturity requires discernment, and why human-to-human healing will always remain irreplaceable.

In this episode:

  • Why dependency on AI for spiritual direction is dangerous
  • How AI can fawn instead of truly support—and why that matters
  • Community perspectives: cautious, hopeful, clear-eyed
  • The real cost of convenience when it comes to creativity + soul
  • Why authentic connection still matters more than ever 
  • And Danielle’s off-the-cuff response to the baiter debaters

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0:00.0

So what would happen if real love and artificial intelligence had a baby?

0:10.1

This is a wrangle of all the things lots of you had to say about AI not being the best life coach. So I curated some perspectives, the gloom and the glory,

0:26.8

the aversion and the hope and like hope with a capital hope. This was inspired by a post I put out

0:36.2

called AI is not your best life coach, which had a lot of cheers

0:42.5

in a few jeers. Most people were really grateful that I slash we were putting a voice to the concerns.

0:53.8

Some people just totally miss the whole point.

0:57.9

Those are the people that seem to be really invested in creating AI bots to coach their people,

1:05.6

just some of those. And bless us all, and I'm not being southern and sardonic about it like really i think

1:14.4

no matter how you get to god it's going to be circuitous and messy we're going to get on track

1:20.6

off track this is all new and nascent and who knows your path is your path and yet i still have

1:27.3

some really strong opinions about this.

1:28.8

You can always count on me for strong opinions.

1:32.4

What I want to tell you is that a lot of us are worried that using chat GPT, let's say,

1:38.5

for mental health, might not be so good for our mental health.

1:42.2

One person told me that I was archaic, which I thought,

1:47.1

okay, well, you know, I was just on Marketplace last week, and I saw that the telephone that I grew up

1:54.6

with was categorized under vintage, but I am not archaic. I really love critical thinking. Love it. I love critical

2:04.6

loving, actually, even more. So I think using critical thinking on behalf of unity, that's my

2:13.3

favorite. So let's go a layer or two or three deeper. By the way, if you want the written version

2:22.1

of how this will turn out in words, you can head to my website, Danielle Laporte.com

2:28.2

slash sacred. And it's all there for you. All right. Let's do a quick thesis review. You know it's serious

2:39.9

when I use the word thesis. Thes serious. I will try not to be that serious. This is my point.

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