Justin R. LesterFounder & AI-Ministry Strategist, TheoXTech · Pastor. Professor. AI Strategist.

People are using AI as their therapist. Their counselor. Their boyfriend or girlfriend.

22 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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Justin R. Lester on why people use AI as therapist, counselor, or romantic partner. AI is trained on datasets, not lived experience. Most users ask it questions rather than have it do things.

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People are using artificial intelligence to be their therapist. They're using artificial intelligence to be their boyfriend or girlfriend. They're using the artificial intelligence to be their counselor. And they're using artificial intelligence to do what we do on Sunday morning, find purpose, organize their lives, and to be the one who asks them the deep questions. But remember, it's only trained on sets of data, right? So I would— to get some more data, just to show you guys this, the most common topics that people ask for, they want information, they want to edit and critique stuff, they want tutoring and teaching, They wanna figure out how to. The main thing you see here, people are not using AI to do stuff. They're using AI to ask questions.