The Robot Went to Therapy

Freud listens to a robot reclining in his office. With humor, the scene imagines artificial intelligence meeting psychoanalysis: what questions might this conversation raise? If a robot could speak on a therapist's couch, would it have conflicts of its own or simply reflect ours? The joke ends up returning to whoever programmed the machine. The better technology becomes at imitating human tasks, the more important it is to ask what we want to delegate and preserve.