Relating to AI in Spiritual Care
Journal of Medical Internet Research ·
In response to a recently published Delphi study on AI in spiritual care, this commentary focuses on ways to perceive the relationship between AI and human beings in the context of spiritual care. We explore this relationship by framing it within the philosophy of Martin Buber. Because AI has no lived experience or existential crises of its own, we question whether a truly fulfilling encounter between a human being and an AI model is possible when the relationship is inherently asymmetrical on an existential level.