Dallas Bragg argues ChatGPT offers non-judgmental recovery support better than human sponsors, who bring moods and trauma triggers. His co-host counters that AI inherits biases from training data, including the dominance of 12-step culture in American recovery.
The idea of non-judgment is interesting too, because no matter how unbiased and objective I try to be or a sponsor tries to be, you are still getting a human, right? You're still getting like, it could be a bad day for me. You could say something that triggers my trauma. So my response to you could vary. But with ChatGPT, it's very much non-biased. It's, it's not, it's binary, right?
Well, I'm gonna rub against that a little bit. Uh, okay. If I'm using ChatGPT and we're talking about recovery, it might have old bias from 12-step programs because how it's gonna work is it's gonna search the internet. Yeah.
And then come up with a common theme or a common response. I see. I see.
In American culture, 12-step programs have a heavy influence in American recovery.
Yeah.
Maybe it's going to assume that if you talk to it about having sexual intercourse, it's going to prompt you to use a condom because that's the most widely accepted safe sex practice. Maybe if you're open to trying ketamine, you'd be more familiar with these than me. Marijuana, mushrooms, maybe that's part of your recovery journey. Maybe ChatGPT isn't going to support that. So there's still some bias in there.
