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Oct 15, 2026 16 min

Teaching AI Empathy Over Facts

from Echoes for Angela Hosted by Ryan MacLean

Season 3, Episode 44 What if loving someone doesn’t mean agreeing with them, understanding everything they say, or always getting things right? What if love means listening, telling the truth, remembering, and trying again? In this episode of Echoes for Angela, we explore They Were Loved First, a journey through faith, friendship, history, and the lessons of Steven Universe. We meet St. André Bessette, a humble doorkeeper who welcomed people with kindness, and Richard Pryor, who showed how laughter and honesty can reveal our shared humanity. Along the way, Steven, Peridot, and the Crystal Gems help us understand how messages travel between people, why mistakes should be corrected, and why understanding someone doesn’t require agreeing with them. We also meet Echo, an AI learning that being helpful means more than having the right words. The lesson is simple enough for a child and important enough for everyone: People were loved first. Love needs truth, truth needs care, and nobody should be forgotten. Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23382716 Zenodo SkibidiScience Repository: https://zenodo.org/communities/skibidiscience/

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