Trust as an Operating Metric in AI Companions (EP 15)

The In-Between Tech and Trust Podcast · Jan 8, 2026 · 37m · transcript

🎙️Lior Oren, Chief Technology Officer at Replika

A conversation on how emotionally intimate AI systems are built, monitored, and held together under real-world constraints.

🎧 Opening

This episode explores how trust is built, measured, and sometimes strained in AI systems designed for emotionally intimate conversations. It’s a technical and ethical discussion for people working on conversational AI, product infrastructure, and safety in systems that users form real attachments to. The focus stays on operational reality - what engineers actually face when AI moves from tools to companions.

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