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Empathy on Demand: How Empathic AI Can Scale Emotional Support for Verbal Harassment

arXiv:2606.05995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Verbal harassment is a growing source of psychological stress for people around the world. It occurs both online and offline and relies on language to demean, threaten, or discredit its targets. Unlike other stressors such as loss or uncertainty, verbal harassment aims at silencing its targets by eroding their sense of being heard and weakening their perceived ability to respond. Many individuals lack access to adequate and timely support, however, when they experience such harassment. People increasingly turn to conversational artificial intell…

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