A new TV show displays masked interactions between therapists and clients with a twist: the client's therapist can either be AI or human and neither the client nor the audience will know which. The audience can vote for or against the therapist; therapists the audience does not approve of will be eliminated. An interview is transcribed with one of the clients, asking if they are worried that their therapist will turn out to be a machine. The client responds that they are not; the therapy is effective and that is what matters. The transcription of the interview is interrupted with narrative interjections about the history of AI development, and whether AIs can "think" and interpret emotions or are simply repeating patterns. Machines can make poetry, mimic empathy, and learn procedures used to help patients process emotions. But is this mimicry a replacement for how humans understand and experience their world? Can machines understand what it means to be human?