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The following fictional account of two counselling sessions contain excerpts from non-fictional recorded conversations between a certified philosophical counselor and two of her actual clients.1)Philosophical counselors typically don’t diagnose clients according to the psychiatric Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Nor do they prescribe psychotropic medications as treatment for a troubled mind because those are known to interfere with the proper functioning of the physical brain, and can produce many disturbing side effects. The topic of discussion in both sessions below is Artificial Intelligence (AI). Recently, due to the media’s intensifying warnings about it, AI has become a topic brought to counselors by an increasing number of concerned individuals. Some of them have said that their mental struggles have been due to worries over AI’s direct effects on their daily lives and occupations. Others have expressed alarm over the many uneasy discussions about AI among family members, close friends, and professional colleagues. A common troubling theme among many clients is the likelihood of an ‘AI apocalypse,’ meaning the deliberate slaughter of human beings at the artificial hands of sentient machines. What follows is a brief account of two hypothetical sessions in a possible future.