Alex Mar
@alex-mar.bsky.social
Writer/Journalist.
Debut novel coming in early 2027.
Nonfiction: SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN (NYT Editors' Choice), WITCHES OF AMERICA (NYT Notable Book), longform journalism, doc AMERICAN MYSTIC (Kino Lorber).
Debut novel coming in early 2027.
Nonfiction: SEVENTY TIMES SEVEN (NYT Editors' Choice), WITCHES OF AMERICA (NYT Notable Book), longform journalism, doc AMERICAN MYSTIC (Kino Lorber).
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“What is the hole in our culture that therapy fills? And what really happens when we try to re-create that relationship with a machine?”
@alex-mar.bsky.social going to sub-Freudian depths with this story about two people and their bots
www.wired.com/story/ai-the...
@alex-mar.bsky.social going to sub-Freudian depths with this story about two people and their bots
www.wired.com/story/ai-the...
The Haunting Story of Two People—and Their Bots—on Therapy’s New Frontier
As millions confide in ChatGPT about their most intimate problems, these relationships are even stranger, more moving, and more insidious than we've imagined.
www.wired.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“What is the hole in our culture that therapy fills? And what really happens when we try to re-create that relationship with a machine?”
@alex-mar.bsky.social going to sub-Freudian depths with this story about two people and their bots
www.wired.com/story/ai-the...
@alex-mar.bsky.social going to sub-Freudian depths with this story about two people and their bots
www.wired.com/story/ai-the...
Reposted by Alex Mar
This is one of the best stories we've published in a long time. Come for the most thoughtful, in-depth exploration of AI as therapy you've ever read.
Stay because the writing and the storytelling are both sensational. @alex-mar.bsky.social did such tremendous work on this one.
Stay because the writing and the storytelling are both sensational. @alex-mar.bsky.social did such tremendous work on this one.
October 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
This is one of the best stories we've published in a long time. Come for the most thoughtful, in-depth exploration of AI as therapy you've ever read.
Stay because the writing and the storytelling are both sensational. @alex-mar.bsky.social did such tremendous work on this one.
Stay because the writing and the storytelling are both sensational. @alex-mar.bsky.social did such tremendous work on this one.
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On Wednesday, November 12 at 7 PM, I’ll be in conversation with @alex-mar.bsky.social at Books Are Magic — details and registration at withoutconsent.eventbrite.com (it will also be live-streamed):
October 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
On Wednesday, November 12 at 7 PM, I’ll be in conversation with @alex-mar.bsky.social at Books Are Magic — details and registration at withoutconsent.eventbrite.com (it will also be live-streamed):
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Every day, millions confide in AI, exposing their most intimate problems and hoping it will fix them.
This is the story of two people—and their bots—on the very edge of therapy’s new frontier.
AI as therapist? By @alex-mar.bsky.social
This is the story of two people—and their bots—on the very edge of therapy’s new frontier.
AI as therapist? By @alex-mar.bsky.social
Millions Are Confessing Their Secrets to Chatbots. Is That Therapy?
This is the story of two people—and their ChatGPT companions—trying to improve their lives through AI. These relationships, it is clear, are changing us.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Every day, millions confide in AI, exposing their most intimate problems and hoping it will fix them.
This is the story of two people—and their bots—on the very edge of therapy’s new frontier.
AI as therapist? By @alex-mar.bsky.social
This is the story of two people—and their bots—on the very edge of therapy’s new frontier.
AI as therapist? By @alex-mar.bsky.social
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If you are anxiously posting about how Elon is hijacking our country and you haven’t called your members of Congress, your Governor, and Dem leadership, to urge them to action, then you too are not acting.
February 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
If you are anxiously posting about how Elon is hijacking our country and you haven’t called your members of Congress, your Governor, and Dem leadership, to urge them to action, then you too are not acting.
Thanks, Kate! And I’m very happy to be teaming up with her!
January 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Thanks, Kate! And I’m very happy to be teaming up with her!
Haha…gimme a few months
January 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Haha…gimme a few months