BONUS: Can AI Chatbots replace basements and meetings? AI voice generated podcast.

Send us Fan MailThis is a bonus podcast download of the Terminal Addiction podcast with two guest podcasters.  This episode will talk about the changes in recovery due to the 2020 pandemic.  As has been previously discussed, Paul B and Doug H began their recovery during the pandemic, and it changed the way that recovery happened.  Treatment centers were on lockdown and most meetings were shut down.Online meetings became commonplace and the only refuge for many in recovery.  Social media lead to the birth and explosive growth of support groups on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, and others.  The scramble to find a meeting anywhere and anytime became essential.Now meetings have become not a local meeting but often a regional, national or even an international meeting among people who may never see each other in person.Today, with the birth and growth of AI, we have new tools, including Open Recovery, which is an AI recovery assistant that can help in moments when other help is unavailable or a chatbot is more comfortable than face-to-face discussions.  This and other mental health chatbots allow anytime, anywhere access to someone to talk to.The flipside of all of this technology is that it is reducing the face-to-face interactions so vital for sobriety.  Accountability to a chatbot is different than accountability to a person or group.What many of you may not be aware of is that this episode of the podcast was not hosted by humans but by AI.  This episode, though, was written by Paul B. Support the show